Many people associate the lack of qualifications of eldership with a fault in some way with the individual. Well, it's not his fault his wife died, or his kids leaving the church doesn't mean he's a bad person... It really has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with qualifications. Consider with me:

A man drives a school bus for 40 years. In these 40 years he never missed, he never got a traffic ticket, and every kid he ever picked up was delivered safely. One day he loses his eyesight due to no fault of his own. Is this man still qualified to drive the bus? He didn;t do anything wrong. He was doing his job faithfully. Why should he step from driving the bus just because he can't see anymore?

the bus driver did everything right for 40 years, but he suddenly lacked one thing in order to be qualified to drive the bus.

God laid down the qualifications for His bus drivers. We are not to rationalize, we are not to change or deviate from that in any way. Only then can we be assured of our standing before God. Let us make sure God's bus drivers are up to God's standards.

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"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him." 1 John 3:18-19

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