We and Our Elders

Barrett L. Gritters is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Byron Center, Michigan. The relation between believers in the church and the elders is often incorrectly viewed as similar to that between citizens of the United States and their State or Congressional Representatives. Ours (USA) is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" in which (according to our constitution) the power rests in the people who are governed. That is, the power rests in the people...