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Post by Kyle Baker, Program Coordinator at the Institute for Excellence & Ethics.
You can follow Kyle's daily adventures here.
After nearly a month of traveling to different regions of the country to work with educators and students, last night I flew into Helena, Montana for a few days on the ground. This morning when I woke up, I drove to Whitehall, a small southwestern Montana town of just over 1,000 residents. As I pulled into town, I used my iPhone to access Google Maps so that I could find directions to St. Teresa's Catholic Church.
I parked my car between two neatly painted white lines in the parish parking lot, and walked into the church just as a funeral Mass began in celebration of the life of Betty Hogan, whom I had never met.
So why was I at the funeral of someone I'd never met, in a town I'd never been…and what does all of this have to do with a "Web of Impact"?
From 2001 until graduating in 2006, I attended Carroll College in Helena, Montana, where I played on the football team. My time as a student-athlete (a term that has come under fire recently, but which I take very seriously) at Carroll was filled with many wonderful and challenging experiences, and marked by great development as a student, an athlete, and a person; it was one of the truly formative periods of my life.
While there, my offensive line coach was a man known to many as "Hogie." Hogie is the kind of person who epitomizes the term "duties as otherwise assigned." In addition to serving as a football coach, he also oversees the strength and conditioning program, is the master of the equipment room, and the king of one-liners. Most people I've met over the years who have been associated in any way with football in Montana have a "Hogie-story," and somewhere tucked away in a box I even have a binder full of "Hogie-isms" I collected during 5 years of film-study sessions.
After a person tells you their favorite Hogie-story, they're quite likely to comment just as quickly on what a good, hard working, and caring man Hogie is. No matter how early I would arrive for our winter conditioning workouts (which usually began prior to 6:00am), Hogie's car would already be in the parking lot. The door to his office was constantly open, inviting conversations on everything from game plans to relationships to what was for lunch that day in the dining hall. On Saturday afternoons after a game, as everyone poured out of the locker room to celebrate a victory with their families, Hogie could be found washing the game uniforms because he believed that champions should never have grass stains on their uniforms. This is a man who takes his jobs very seriously, because he knows their purpose, even if sometimes that purpose goes unnoticed by others.
The man many know as Hogie is Coach Jim Hogan, son of Betty Hogan, who passed away last week after a long battle with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Funerals have always been a strange thing to me, perhaps because as a child I didn't have many experiences of dealing with the death of friends and loved ones. I do remember attending the funeral of a friend's father (Gary McKenna, my youth football coach, who first taught me to love the game of football, about the hard work required to play it well, and about the relationships that could be developed through teamwork and competition). I remember being overwhelmed by the sadness that permeated the building, and I remember hoping that people wouldn't be so sad when I died.
Of course this sadness is natural; we grieve for the loss of those we love and can no longer spend time with, we wonder if we should have called or written more, and we are confronted by the truth of our own mortality…but many times, as was the case today in Whitehall, joy is also present. Joy for a life well lived, and for love well shared.
Today as I sat in St. Teresa's and listened to readings and reflections on life and death, I realized that I wasn't just there to support my mentor and friend as well as his grieving family, but that I was also there to share my gratitude for the profound impact that Betty Hogan had on my life.
I don't imagine that when Betty was 12 or 22 or 72, she ever imagined that her thoughts, her words, and her actions would someday affect a kid she would never even meet in any significant way, but they did. Through the impact she had on the life of her son Jim…the values she instilled in him, the life-lessons she guided him through, and even the way she tended to his basic human needs for food, water, shelter, and affection as a child…she had a powerful and lasting impact on my own life, because her son Jim has made a significant impact on me, and has helped me become the man I am today: Far from perfect, but trying every day to learn to be a good person, to work hard, to not take things so seriously that I miss the chance to share a smile or a laugh, to be fiercely loyal, to be genuine, and to love the people around me. In the 11 years we've known each other, Coach Hogan has done so many things to help and support me I've lost count, and I am certain there have been many more that I'll never learn of.
His thoughts, words, and actions…the life of Jim Hogan, has had a profound, formative, and lasting impact on me.
The most fascinating thing about this is that the influence of so many others who have had an impact on his life makes up part of an expansive Web of Impact. You and I are part of this web too, just as is the person in the factory that built my car, the person who carried my iPhone from the delivery truck to the store, the person who designed Google Maps so I wouldn't get lost (well, at least not as often), the person who painted the lines in the lot where I parked, and the usher who greeted me with a smile and a "good-morning" as I walked into St Teresa's. Just like I don't imagine that Betty Hogan ever thought,"I bet if I teach my son Jim to work hard and be a good person, he will teach the same things to a football player he coaches someday," I don't know that the people who performed the jobs I just described thought about how their actions would affect me today…the impact they would have on me….but what if they did?
And what if I did? What if I thought more about what kind of impact I was making…what if we all did? What increase in sense of purpose would we have? In our sense of self-worth? In our understanding of community? In the joy with which we experience both the profound and the seemingly mundane? What if we thought more intentionally about the impact we wanted to make with our lives, and what if we reflected deeply on this more regularly? Because you see, our thoughts, our words, our actions…they really do matter, and they matter in incredibly more vast and complex ways than we can ever imagine or comprehend. And one of the great gifts of this life is that we get to choose the kind of impact we make, because we get to choose how we think about the world and about the people around us, we get to choose what we say and how we say it, and we get to choose how and when we act. (And as Spiderman always wisely reminds us, this great gift of power comes with great responsibility).
A few weeks ago, I got to speak with nearly 400 high school and middle school students about "Impact" at the Southwest Kansas Student Leadership Conference, hosted at Garden City Community College. (My participation in this event was made possible through a generous conference sponsorship from United Wireless of Kansas). Throughout the conference, students reflected on their own unique skills, talents, and interests, and on how those could be put to use in order to make a positive impact on peoples' lives, in their schools, in their families, in their workplaces, and in their communities, both now and in their future.
Next month, more students and educators will have the opportunity to contemplate this idea of being a part of a Web of Impact; to reflect on what they want their own impact to be and to learn to develop personal competencies that will help them make a positive with their life.
Through the Kansas PCEP Project, a federally funded initiative that for the last four years has worked to create a sustainable character development movement in high schools across the state of Kansas, students, educators, school board members, and community members have been invited to participate in three Excellence & Ethics Impact Academies which will take place around the state. These Excellence & Ethics Impact Academies provide participants with a unique opportunity to reflect deeply at their own experiences, to identify their goals, and to consider how their unique skills, interests, and opportunities can be built upon in order to make a positive and lasting impact with their lives.
And these opportunities are important, not only for our schools, and our communities…but for our collective future…because what we think, what we say, and what we do matters.
Whether we realize it or not, each of us makes an impact on the people we interact with and on the world around us…and if we all spent a little more time being still with that information; thinking about all the people who have made an impact on us, and considering what kind of impact we will choose to make with our own lives, our individual lives are likely to be lived with more depth and richness, and perhaps our collective impact will begin to solve some of the more global problems we're confronted with today as a society.
Just like Mrs. Hogan may never have known the significant impact her life had on me, we may not ever directly see tangible evidence that every thought we think, every word we utter, or every action we take will have…but one thing that we do know is that the Web of Impact is real…and we are all part of it.


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Database Integrity and Web Applications
Want to improve the integrity of your data? Place constraints in the database, as well as in your application.
NoSQL, the catchall phrase for non-relational databases, is all the rage among Web developers. However, it's somewhat unfair and unhelpful to use the term NoSQL to describe them, given the variety of technologies involved. Even so, there are some fundamental differences between traditional relational databases and their NoSQL counterparts. For one, as the name implies, NoSQL databases don't use the standard SQL query language, and use either their own SQL-like language (for example, MongoDB) or an object-oriented API. Another difference is the lack of two-dimensional tables; whereas SQL databases operate solely with such tables, NoSQL databases eschew them in favor of name-value pairs or hash-like objects. And finally, NoSQL databases typically lack the features that led to the development of relational databases, namely transactions and data integrity.
There's no doubt that the flexibility NoSQL databases offer is attractive on a number of levels. Just as I enjoy working with dynamic languages in which I don't have to declare my variables (or their types) before I use them, it's nice to be able to store objects in my database without having to define the object structure in advance. If I want to add a new field to my Person object, I just do so, and the database magically catches up.
At the same time, there are many cases when I want the database to be tough with me and enforce the integrity of my data. That is, I want to be sure that even if I have made a mistake in my application, or if a user enters a value that shouldn't be allowed, the database won't allow that bad data to be stored. And yes, I believe that it's good to have such checks at the database level, rather than just at the application level—not only because it provides an additional guard against corrupt data, but also because the database often is accessed directly, outside the application itself. I often have to do what I refer to as "database surgery" on applications that are running for my clients, and it's always reassuring to know I cannot make a change manually that would corrupt the data.
Readers of my column know I'm a fan of both Ruby on Rails and of PostgreSQL, and I often use them together on projects. However, because Rails originally was developed under MySQL, which lacks many of the data-integrity aspects of PostgreSQL, the standard Active Record package fails to include such items as foreign keys in its base implementation. This means that although Rails will support PostgreSQL out of the box, it doesn't provide support for foreign keys, let alone data-integrity checks.
So, in this article, I look at some Ruby gems that make it possible to include foreign-key support in your Active Record models. I also describe ways you can take advantage of PostgreSQL's CHECK mechanism to ensure that your data is as safe as possible.
Where Do You Check Your Data?
Before I go into the actual code and implementation, I admit there are several philosophies of where and how to check your data. As I mentioned previously, I prefer to have the data checked at both the database and application levels, although sometimes I've been lazy and used the default in Rails that does so only at the application level.
Checking your data only at the application level is attractive in many ways. It makes the implementation easier, and it often will work just fine. It also, in the case of Rails, allows you to work in a single language (that is, Ruby) and put the integrity checks in your model files, where you're going to be using them.
But as I already said, if I have my checks only in the application, it's quite possible that when I try to access the database from outside my application, I'll end up messing things up, if only accidentally. Now, I'll admit this is the way many Web applications are designed, and it's not a fatal flaw. But it is something that I'll try to avoid in this article.
It would be a bigger mistake to try to do things the other way around—that is, to have the checks only in the database, rather than at the application level. Imagine, for example, if you were to have a "NOT NULL" constraint in the database, such that a particular column could not contain a NULL value. If you didn't protect against such things at the application layer, you might end up trying to put that data into your database. And although the database itself would not be corrupted, the application would generate an error, confusing and frustrating users.
So, upsetting and annoying as it might be, the best way to do things probably is to duplicate some work—adding the constraints on the database and then having them on the application as well. You could argue that you should have the constraints in place in a third location—in the HTML form the user often will use to submit information to the server. Fortunately, there is at least one technique for handling this sort of thing automatically. The client_side_validations gem for Rails copies the validations as best as possible, putting them into JavaScript within the user's views.
Foreign Keys
With this background, let's now assume that I want to implement a simple appointment calendar. In order to implement my calendar, I need to keep track of people (each of whom has a first name, a last name, an e-mail address and a telephone number) and appointments (which will indicate the date/time of the appointment, the person with whom I'm meeting and a note about the meeting itself).
At the database level, the tables will be fairly straightforward. This is how I would create the tables if I were doing so manually:
CREATE TABLE People (
id SERIAL,
first_name TEXT NOT NULL,
last_name TEXT NOT NULL,
email TEXT NOT NULL,
phone TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(id)
CREATE TABLE Appointments (
id SERIAL,
person_id INTEGER REFERENCES People NOT NULL,
notes TEXT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(id)
The important thing here, for the purposes of this discussion, is the
REFERENCES People
clause in the definition of the Appointments
table. With the REFERENCES clause in place, I can do the following:
INSERT INTO People (first_name, last_name, email, phone)
VALUES ('Reuven', 'Lerner', 'firstname.lastname@example.com',
INSERT INTO Appointments (person_id, notes) VALUES (1, 'Meet with
Now, here's what happens if I try to delete myself from the People table:
atf=# DELETE FROM People WHERE id = 1;
ERROR: update or delete on table "people" violates foreign key
constraint "appointments_person_id_fkey" on table "appointments"
DETAIL: Key (id)=(1) is still referenced from table "appointments".
Because Appointments.person_id is a foreign key to People.id, I cannot remove a row from People if Appointments refers to it. This sort of relational integrity is a great thing for my application. No matter how you slice it, it means I cannot remove people from the system if they are scheduled for an appointment.
Rails Integration
If these tables were part of a Web application that I was developing in Ruby on Rails, I would use database migrations to create them. The migrations would look something like this (if combined into a single file):
class CreatePeopleAndAppointments < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :people do |t|
t.string :first_name, :null => false
t.string :last_name, :null => false
t.string :email, :null => false
t.string :phone, :null => false
create_table :appointments do |t|
t.integer :person_id, :null => false
t.text :notes, :null => false
Now, this will give me the table definitions, but it won't give me the foreign keys, meaning that I could corrupt the database by deleting a single "People" record. In order to do that, at least in the default Rails configuration, I need to use an "execute" command in the migration to send explicit SQL to the database.
Fortunately, there is an easier way. The Foreigner gem, written by
Matthew Higgins, which works with MySQL as well as with PostgreSQL,
adds syntax to let you create and remove foreign keys within your
migrations. For example, with Foreigner active—putting it in the
Gemfile and then running bundle install
—I can add a new migration
that does the following:
class AddForeignKey < ActiveRecord::Migration
def up
add_foreign_key :appointments, :people
def down
remove_foreign_key :appointments, :people
Sure enough, after running this migration, I have the foreign key that I was hoping for. Again, it's still important for me to have this check in my Rails model; otherwise, I easily could get myself into a situation that the database forbids but the model allows and, thus, generate a bad error for my users.
Note: if you add the foreign key after you already have populated the database with some data, you might run into trouble. That's because PostgreSQL won't let you add a foreign key if one or more rows fail to abide by the declared constraint. The NOT NULL constraint additionally ensures that you point to some person in the system. In other words, every appointment has to be with someone, and it has to be with someone in the People table.
rewritten for non-empty
INSERT INTO Appointments (person_id, notes)
SELECT (people.id, 'Meet with myself')
FROM people
WHERE (first_name, last_name)
IN ('Reuven', 'Lerner');
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I believe everything typed was actually very reasonable.
However, what about this? what if you added a little content?
I ain't saying your content isn't solid, but what if you added something that makes people want
more? I mean Reply to comment | Linux Journal is a little
boring. You should peek at Yahoo's front page and see how they write article titles to grab people to open the links. You might add a related video or a related picture or two to grab readers excited about what you've got to say.
Just my opinion, it might bring your posts a little bit more interesting.
Question about your SQL
In the second INSERT ("INSERT INTO Appointments") you assume that the person_id is "1", the key assigned by Postgres in the first INSERT ("INSERT INTO People").
Correct me if I'm wrong but you would only know that if you ran your queries against an empty database.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Darnell Williams Signs On To Continue With ALL MY CHILDREN
"Hello everyone! Pp update . Darnell Williams has officially signed on!! More to come xo"
Excited? What will Jesse do without Angie? Or would they recast? Let us know what you think.
7 comments:
- Bambic said...
I think it's great that Mr. Williams has signed on...what bothers me is that he is only the third cast member to do so. I wonder what the problem is---they can't ALL have already signed on to other things.
I really hope AMC does find another life, be it on tv or the internet. - October 21, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- Soap_Stud79 said...
I am excited to hear Darnell will continue with AMC. I hope the writers have Angie in a coma from being shot at the party by JR. This would leave the door open for Debbi to return some day and it would be good drama to see Jesse try and go on with life without her.
- October 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- PHOTODEVA said...
Every night when I go home and realize that "All My Children" isn't on my DVR I get sad. It was one of the things I always looked forward to to relax in the evening and catch up on my AMC friends. Not only that Dan Kroll's column made me chuckle and sometimes shed a tear at a character's passing.
I miss AMC so much I can't say. ABC screwed up big time. I don't and won't watch "The Chew", The Spew, The Dew or whatever else they come up with.
I love Jesse -- he's one of the hallmark characters of my generation. When he came back to the show several years ago I screamed for joy. I am sad that Angie won't be there. She is SOOOOO beautiful and I love her dimples. I will miss her beautiful face and spirit. - October 21, 2011 at 7:51 PM
- harlee490 said...
This is good news...maybe PP will need to temporarily do a recast of Angie until DM could return.
- October 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM
- GO said...
Great News, but I hope more of them will sign on too. I wouldn't want another actress playing Angie's part. It just wouldn't be the same. They been together too long. Some characters, you just cant recast.
- October 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM
FranniegThis is great news ... I so hoped Darnell would sign (love him). I miss AMC so much; can't wait to watch it on PP. As for Angie, don't recast ... want DM to reconsider in the near future. I hope others will sign soon. Vicent and Micheal why are you taking so long?
- October 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM
- SoapKat said...
This is great news. I hate that DM has moved on, but I would be open to a recast. There have been some wonderful recasts that, at first, thought would never work, but in time came to love them too. I'm just glad that AMC has life!!!!
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BETHPAGE OLD BETHPAGE PLAINVIEW 1ST R8 BETHPAGE LIB 47 POWELL AV 5ETHPAGE NY JJ 7 I 4 4£th P*GE %eUc ISLAND TREES PLAINEDGE SEAFORD ty VOL. 14 NO. 43 For The Week Of April 10 - April 16,1980 20 cents per copy State Champs Led by Bethpager Danny Gold, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gould, 26610th Street, Bethpage, was a member of the Town of Oyster Bay Peewee Hockey team which won the New York State Championship in Rome, N.Y. the weekend of March 21,22,23. Danny played a right wing on the powerful Oyster Bay squad which averaged 8 goals per game during the season. Oyster Bay defeated the host team in the championship final, 3-0, after posting decisive wins over Amherst 6-0; Massena 8-1; Syracuse 11-1 and Troy (in the semi-final contest) 10-1. The team, which boasts a season record of 55 wins, 1 loss and 4 ties, will now travel to Detroit, Michigan, to compete in the National Tournament the weekend of April 11. In the two years this team played together, it has won 124, A GOOD LISTENER -- Some 100 visually handicapped and blind youngsters, such as ten year old Anne Mauro of Bethpage, enjoyed a traditional Easter egg hunt with some help from special "chirping" eggs and the Telephone Pioneers of America clown trpupe. The Pioneers, a community service group of New York Telephone employees, designed the unique units just for the occasion which was held at the Burrwood Home for the Blind in Cold Spring Harbor. lost 2 and tied 8. Two years ago, as Squirts (ages 9 and 10), this team also won the State Championship, the first time a Long Island team has ever done so. The Town of Oyster Bay Ice Hockey League is sponsored by the Town's Department of Parks. The ice hockey program, which was founded in 1966, is the largest of its kind on Long Island. The teams play on the Town's three ice rinks located in the Bethpage, Marjorie R. Post and Syosset- Woodbury Community parks. Firemen's Park Opens April 19 Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore R. Mosca announced that the Town will dedicate a park in Bethpage to the community volunteer firemen, and unveil a stone monument honoring two Bethpage firemen who gave their lives in the performance of their duty. The park, located on Powell Avenue behind the Bethpage Library, will be officially dedicated the Bethpage Firemen's Memorial Park at ceremonies beginning at 10 AM, Saturday, April 19,1980. At that time a stone monument will also be unveiled, inscribed with the names of Captain Joseph Dunn and Fireman Robert Hassett who were killed on May 25,1978, while fighting a fire at a retail swimming pool outlet in Bethpage. Saturday Is Clean-Up Day Some of the children in the above photo probably have children of their own. The shot was taken in 1967 during a very successful Bethpage clean-up drive. This Saturday over 100 youngsters will meet at the Police Boys .Club parking lot on. Stewart Avenue, move out at 9 A.M. to designated locations and begin cleaning up the town. It takes considerably more youngsters in 1980 than it did in 1967 simply because Bethpage has more litter now. The clean-up is a major operation and we are fortunate to have the volunteer services of the following groups: the Political Activities Club with prexy Jeanne Candiotte; Robert Anderson and his Boy Scouts; Susan Dunn and the Girl Scouts and Mauree Briedenbock and her 4H boys and girls. To help ease the chore somewhat, the Town of Oyster Bay will sweep Broadway and Stewart Avenue on Thursday and Friday. After the clean-up, the Woman's Club is planning to plant new flowers in the tubs along Broadway, More help is needed and a phone call to 935-1195 after five any evening will line you up for your assistance. Residents are urged to cooperate by cleaning up their own immediate areas and offering voluntary transportation. All filled bags and or other debris may be brought to the P.B.C. parking lot and deposited into a roll-off dumpster supplied by the Highway Dept. of Oyster Bay Town The project should be completed by 11 or 12 Noon at the latest — when all participants will meet at the parking lot for refreshments ... sponsored and supplied by the Rotary Club of Bethpage. Rain Date: April 26 — weather permitting! OUTSTANDING SPORTSMAN: Oyster Bay Town Councilman Gregory W. Carman [second from left] was on hand at the Tobay Hockey Awards night to present the trophy for outstanding sport-manship to Charlie Herel [second from right] of Bethpage Charlie's parents were present to witness the proud moment.
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Table of Contents
VI. Relationship to/with the Congregation
Suggestions for Further Reading/Study
This document is the result of over a year of prayerful and often lengthy discussion, revision, and decision-making. I appreciate the hard work the committee members did and are doing to make this declaration of understanding a reality. I also appreciate the input and discussion from the Operations Committee. The committee members and the Operations Committee richly deserve all the praise they can be given. The myriad writers throughout time and the brotherhood of Christ were also indispensable in arriving at the document you have in your hands. This document, however, is a human endeavor and is subject to all human frailties. Ultimately, as chair of the committee and editor of this document, any and all shortcomings in this document are mine. The members of the committee hope only that this declaration of understanding helps us as a congregation to give greater glory to God by helping ourselves to govern ourselves in accordance to his will so that our community and others can be led to Christ through our examples and Jesus' saving love. Thank you again to all those who had any part in helping us to develop this declaration of understanding.
God has had a covenant relationship with mankind since he created humanity in the Garden of Eden. This was, and still is, a relationship based on mutual trust and responsibility. Mankind, however, has often broken this trust. In fact, humanity broke this trust so often and to such a degree that God destroyed mankind in Genesis 6; that is with the exception of Noah and his family, to whom God declared "I will establish my covenant with you" (Gen. 6:18). God's covenant with Noah and all mankind has been maintained with varying degrees of success until this day. Today, God's covenant people are found in his church (Lk. 1:67-72; Acts 3:25; Rom. 9-10: 13; Eph. 2:11-22; Heb. 8:6-13). At times the covenant was in oral form only; at other times, such as with Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness, the covenant was written down in a more permanent form. In time, the history of the Hebrew nation, the story of the coming of the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and the acts and letters of the apostles were also written down in the form we now know it, the Holy Bible. This is the form of God's covenant and will with and for mankind today. There is, therefore, no reason why we as people of God, in a covenant relationship with Him, cannot write down such things as we see fit to clarify and explain this covenant to ourselves. In fact, we commonly do so in the form of bible commentaries, class study guides, and expository essays. This is the scope and purpose of this document, to clarify and define the roles and responsibilities of church leaders within the confines of the local congregation(s). It is by no means definitive, nor does it pretend to replace or alter the word of God as we have it in holy scripture; rather it seeks to facilitate the relationship of the congregation's leaders and their charges. It is a consensus declaration of our understanding of that relationship and all it entails
How this question of the roles and responsibilities of congregational leadership is answered depends a great deal upon what the congregation sees as its need(s) and mission(s). We are proceeding under the assumption that this question is answered in a two-fold manner: The need(s) and mission(s) of this congregation are to 1) touch and influence more lives of people in our community who are not Christians, and 2) nurture, build up, and bring to maturity the lives and souls within our congregation. Consequently, we see our leaders as shepherds, not executive officers.
· We have them as our caretakers, not our representatives to or for God
· We have them to care for our sick, weak, troubled and discouraged/disheartened
· We have them to help us protect ourselves from evil people who would destroy our fellowship and damn our souls
Perhaps it is easier to define the roles and responsibilities of church leaders if we look first at what they are not and do not do. We understand from the New Testament that early congregations did not own property or buildings, nor did they have any kind of legal recognition as a religious entity. Therefore, whenever the early church leaders met, it follows that they did not focus on property or building issues, nor did they concern themselves with the legality of what they were doing. Are congregational leaders therefore barred from discussing and concerning themselves with these issues? No, but if they are doing so, then they are by necessity distracted from those roles and responsibilities with which the early church leaders concerned themselves. It is also significant that none of the words usually understood as "rule," having authority or the right to exercise power," absolute ownership," high place, preeminent position of authority," "potentate, high officer," "to command," or " obedience to one in authority" are ever used in the New Testament in context with elders or their functions in the congregation(s). All of these words are biblical words and are used elsewhere in the New Testament text. They were certainly available to the New Testament writers had they chosen to use them; they did not. However, perhaps the strongest indication of the roles and responsibilities of elders is found in the words of Matthew in the ninth chapter and thirty-sixth verse, when he tells us that "when [Jesus] saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd." No doubt the Jewish Christians had leaders. There was the Council of Seventy as well as a plethora of other public officials, teachers, and leaders, yet Jesus felt sorry for the people because they had no shepherds. This figure of the shepherd, then, is the focus and frame of reference for determining the role and responsibilities of congregational leaders in Jesus' church. As shepherds, the leaders of a congregation are intimately involved in the lives of those given into their charge. In an extended discussion of this relationship in John 10, Jesus speaks of how the shepherd knows each of his flock by name and attends to them individually. Such a relationship entails knowing a great deal of personal information, and strictest confidentiality is presumed to be maintained by all those seeking the office of elder in the Lord's church.
A. A Nominations Committee MUST Be Formed
This committee should consist of a substantial number of, no less than five (5), members1 of the congregation who should avoid conflict of interest by either not nominating and/or recusing themselves from decisions involving their nominee(s). The responsibility of this committee is to the congregation. Consequently, this committee should be selected and confirmed by the entire congregation and not by the Operations Committee or any other body that would not allow every member of the congregation to have input into this process. In fact, this same procedure may well serve to select deacons and the committee to which the nominations are to be referred, as well as any other committee or group tasked with special duties. A timeline for filling additional offices can be developed by this committee for approval by the congregation at a later date.
B. Origination Of Nominations
The selection of leaders must come from the broadest base possible, the congregation itself. Consequently, a method for ascertaining the will and desires of the entire congregation must be devised.
C. Ballot (type/form)
1. A ballot/form2 should be issued to every member of the congregation. If individuals choose not to exercise their right to nominate men for leadership positions, that is their right as well, but every effort must be made to give each and every member the opportunity to nominate someone. Multiple nominations for a given person only strengthens the ability of the congregation to ascertain the level of influence and support the nominee has among the members of the congregation. The multiple nominations, in turn, allow the nominee to become aware of the level of support given by the members of the congregation.
2. The ballot must contain a statement of nomination.
3. The ballot must contain a reference list of the qualifications, gathered from all germane scripture, for a given leadership office. This reference tool, however, is not simply a checklist by which the members of the congregation qualify or disqualify a given nominee. In the books of 1 TIMOTHY and TITUS, the sources of most of the characteristics of shepherds most often called "qualification," matters of faith, a love for Christ, love for the congregants, and the "fruits of the Spirit" as identified by Paul in GAL 5 are not directly addressed. This reference list is, instead, a means by which a nominator may discuss with a given nominee fitness and desire to fulfill the duties of a leader within the congregation.
4. The ballot must contain an affirmation that the nominator has had personal contact with the nominee, and that the nominee has expressed a willingness to be nominated for a specific leadership office.
D. Timing
1. Ballots should be distributed and adequate time, perhaps as much as thirty days, be given to complete the nominating process.
2. Once ballots are in and nominations have been closed, then a sufficient time allotment should be given, again possibly as much as thirty days or more, to compile nominations, research the fitness of nominees, interview the nominees, identify objectors to a given nominee, and facilitate face-to-face reconciliations of objectors and nominees.
3. The nominations committee, in its ENTIRETY must confirm nominees and facilitate objector/nominee reconciliations. No face-to-face meetings are to be conducted between objector(s) and nominees unless every member of the committee is present.
A. Congregational vote
1. The precedent for a congregational vote is both definite and available.
a. ACTS 14:23 the word translated "appointed" literally means to signify by stretching out the hand. This was the sign commonly used in the Greek forum to signal a vote of yes or no (Vines, McGarvey, Lipscomb, Boles3). Although there are those who would argue that such a word should not be taken so literally, there is no compelling evidence that the early church thought so.
b. We use other means, such as paper ballot, to signal votes today, but the essential process remains the same (ACTS 1:15-26). Each member of the body has one vote per nominee. The committee suggests that a minimum passing vote would be 75% of those voting. The committee also suggests that a minimum of 51% of those eligible to vote must vote in order for the process to be valid.
B. Installation ceremony
1. A public confirmation or presentation was consistently the second part of this two-part process of installing leaders in the early church (ACTS 6:1-6; 14:23). The level of formality, length, and ritual involved in this process is not completely detailed in the New Testament. Therefore, the individual congregation(s) must develop this portion of the process to suit their needs and preferences.
Life is a continuous series of events. People are born; people die. People get jobs; they lose them. People move into the community; they move away. Sometimes people simply get tired. The flux and change of life itself mandates that a congregation be prepared perpetually for change in its leadership. For this reason, the committee suggests that the shepherds of this congregation serve rotating, staggered terms of service of four years. After the initial installation of leaders, the nominating committee will begin to seek additional nominations at least every two years, oftener if men become prepared to serve. Any given elder may serve up to two (2) full consecutive four-year terms, but, in an effort to allow him to rest and rejuvenate himself, he must then rotate off active duty in the eldership for at least a one (1) year period before assuming the work again if nominated and appointed by the congregation. Ideally, every household and person in the congregation is represented by the shepherds, and no one elder will be so burdened as to not be able to meet his obligations to those under his care. When the Israelites adopted this system of government during the exodus from Egypt, a one-to-ten ratio was used. If we follow this pattern, a congregation of 300 should have 30 elders and every family must be represented by a person specifically named to do so! In any event, the committee suggests that the initial appointment of leaders should not be composed of less than five (5) members, and if at any time the number of active elders should fall below five (5), then the nominating committee must immediately reconvene to receive nominations to complete the minimum complement.
A. With Deacons
Deacons are apparently "shepherds-in-training" in the New Testament. The qualifications for both elders and deacons are essentially the same with only minor variations. The pattern of older (elder) men teaching and guiding the younger men, as in an apprenticeship program, is a well-established one in the Bible. Within the context of giving some of the qualifications for shepherds in the letter to Titus, Paul reminds him of this pattern. As such, there should be a mentor relationship with the shepherds. It is to the deacons that the congregation delegates responsibility and authority for the day-to-day operation(s) of the assembly and its physical plant in order to free the shepherds for the work of meeting the spiritual needs of their flock.
B. With Teachers
The primary relationship here involves training and insuring sound doctrine. The shepherds, however, need not be directly involved in developing, providing, or implementing programs, nor should they be burdened with acquiring and maintaining equipment and supplies. These duties are precisely of the type that should be delegated to others in order for the shepherds to get on with their primary work.
C. With Evangelists and staff
This relationship is one of coordination and cooperation. Evangelists' responsibilities are to the congregation. Consequently their primary goal should be to complement the work of the shepherds.
D. With Committees
Committees serve at the pleasure of those who appoint them. At times, the appointing body may be the shepherds, and at such times the committee would answer to the shepherds. At other times, committees may serve the congregation at large, and in those instances would answer to the congregation rather than the shepherds. We envision, for example, that something very much like the current Operations Committee will continue to function in order to coordinate the various ministries and functions necessary for the smooth operation of a congregation. Both shepherds and deacons will of necessity by virtue of their various works and duties be a part of such a committee, but the membership will not be limited to these two offices. A committee of this type would of course be answerable to the congregation rather than as a delegation for or from the shepherds and deacons. The scope and purpose of the committee determines answerability. It is assumed, however, that any committee will always serve with a spirit of openness, integrity, and cooperation with all members of the congregation.
E. With Other Ministries and Work(ers)
As shepherds having been given, and having accepted, the responsibility of meeting the various needs of the congregation by the congregation, the elders should always consider ministries as resources to aid them in their duties. As resources, the ministries are a valuable commodity, and share many, if not all, of the privileges and responsibilities that committees enjoy. The elders do not control or dictate to the ministries, but instead utilize them to promote the achievement of the stated goals of the congregation. Consequently, shepherds should jealously guard and protect the ministries and have much the same relationship with them as they might have with the various committees.
VI. Relationship to/with the Congregation
Most, if not all, of us know virtually nothing of shepherds. Most of us have never seen one. Few, if any, of us have direct experience with the manner in which a shepherd leads and cares for the sheep. Possibly, through the stories of our American West, we have some sense of practices and procedures employed on the "open range," but that knowledge is secondhand at best and a Hollywood glorified and glamorized version of actuality at worst. Yet, the figure of the shepherd is consistently that chosen by God (2 SAM. 5:2; PSA. 23:1; ISA. 40:11; MATT 26:31; John 10:11; 1 PET. 5:2; REV 7:17 and others). Unfortunately, we are familiar with the New Testament descriptions of the Sannhedrin and have often superimposed its system upon our congregational leadership, possibly because it resembles something we are familiar with, a board of directors. We do this in spite of the fact that Jesus himself consistently condemned this body and urged his disciples not to follow their practices. 1 TIM. 5:17-21 clearly indicates that the congregational leadership is answerable to the congregation as a whole, not the usual practice of a board of directors. Furthermore, Paul clearly contrasts the types of church leaders in 3:1-7 and 6:3-5, with those of chapter three preferred. The characteristics listed in chapter six, however, are more representative of those considered appropriate for a "successful" executive officer serving on the board of a large corporation. It is also clear that although the congregation at Ephesus had men serving as leaders, Paul urges the development and installation of more, indicating that the process of developing leadership was a perpetual process. Contrast Paul's outlined process with that of a modern board of directors in which leadership is only changed when problems arise or a board member dies. But, returning to the original question, what exactly did/does a shepherd do?
A. Feeds the flock
The term(s) translated "feed" in its various forms is used over 40 times in the New Testament. The figure is used over 90 times throughout the Bible. In its primary form, feed refers to the literal work of a herdsman (MT. 8:30; MK. 5:14; LK. 8:34; LK. 15:15). Feed is also used metaphorically of a ministry (JN. 21:15,17). The secondary usage, however, is that of acting like a shepherd (LK. 17:7; 1 COR. 9:7; MT. 2:6; JN. 21:16; 1 PET. 5:2; ACTS 20:28). The figure is sometimes translated as "rule" (JUDE 12). In an interesting dialogue with Peter, Jesus uses the terms alternately in JN. 21, using first the primary (literal) form and then using the metaphorical form. These terms are not interchangeable, but rather have provided fuel for much discussion as to the manner in which Peter apparently missed the significance of Jesus' remarks. The remaining forms of the term(s) variously mean "to make grow, nourish, bring up or rear (as children), or fatten (to fill or satisfy with food) (Vines, 87-88). Shepherds of the congregations of the Lord's church are to feed the flock in both a physical sense and a spiritual sense. This work is more than simply instructing the people in God's word. It is feeding their hopes, but not their fears; their aspirations, but not their failures; their achievements, but not their stress. It is "fattening them up" to reach their potential as the sons and daughters of God, and the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
B. Leads the flock
This figure is used over 70 times throughout the Bible. It is applied literally and metaphorically. It is applied to both God and mankind alike. In its primary form, "lead" literally means to "bear, bring carry" (Vines II.321). In all other forms it carries the idea of guiding and going before to show the path or way. Never is it used to indicate simply providing direction.
C. Watches over the flock
This term , in its noun form, means to guard or have custody of (Vines IV.200). In its verb form, that form most often used to refer to congregational leaders, it means to be vigilant and awake and is most often used to discuss external rather than internal threat(s).
This series of suggestions is in no way a replacement for God's word in the Bible. Instead it is a clarification of how leadership might be developed and maintained in this congregation. These suggestions may or may not be appropriate for other congregations, but are the consensus of those who worship God in this place. We pray and hope only that they aid us in doing all we do as a congregation "decently and in order," and that they reduce friction to a minimum, thereby making the work we do for the Lord that much easier and more enjoyable. As a document written by human beings for human beings, it is by no means perfect or infallible and is subject to change at the will of the congregation, but we pray it aids us in achieving our missions of reaching the lost and building up the Lord's people.
1. A member is defined as anyone who is in a covenant relationship with God through baptism and belief in Jesus as Christ.
2. This ballot/form is to be developed by the Leadership Development Committee/Nominations Committee for congregational approval with the initial selection/installation of shepherds.
3. All of these sources of information are listed in the suggestions for further reading and study.
Anderson, Lynn. They Smell Like Sheep. West Monroe, LA: Howard Publishing.
Chadwell, David. @ his web site as minister of the West Arkansas Church of Christ, Fort Smith, AR.
Lyles, Cleon. Bigger Men for better Churches. Little Rock: by the author.
Nave's Topical Bible. Nashville: The Southwestern Company.
Smith's Bible Dictionary. Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers.
Vine, W.E. An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company.
In addition to these sources, a good bible concordance is a must in order to find all the pertinent and germane passages of scripture related to a given topic. Any and all commentaries available should be consulted on the various biblical passages cited . H. Leo Boles and David Lipscomb can be found in the Gospel Advocate series. J.W. McGarvey is well known for his own series in the Gospel Light Publishing Restoration Library. There are also myriad other sources, too numerous to mention, for defining and designing church leadership.


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