Expectations: Elders

"Expectations kill relationships." You’ve probably heard someone make this claim. Yet, while expectations are often at the center of the breakdown in relationships, it isn’t always the expectations themselves that are to blame. When it comes to our relationships in the church, we need to first make sure that we have the right expectations of each other. This is nowhere more important than the expectations we have of leadership. In particular, the expectations that the church should have of its elders - the shepherds of the flock. Consider the admonition of Peter, “a fellow elder,” as he lays out for all of us, what the legitimate expectations should be.