Meet the team

Elders

The Elders are a team of men responsible to God for the overall spiritual direction and vision of the church. This includes Biblical correctness and integrity of our church, guarding the spiritual life and well being of members, mentoring ministry leaders and church discipline where necessary. (1 Peter 5. 1-4). They are strongly supported by their wives.

Crossroads Church Leadership Philosophy

We are committed to a plurality of leadership as that seems to be the New Testament pattern and the church being autonomist (answerable to God and no human hierarchy).  Furthermore we are not a church that votes on issues or in regard to major decisions (spiritual, physical, financial, personnel).

Leadership is charged with leading (Romans 12: 8). However, leadership, on significant matters that affect the Crossroads community, will provide opportunities via general forums, focus groups or individual appointments for people to input into the decision process.

The Elders, Pastors and Support staff are not the people who carry out the ministry of the church and do all the work. Everyone who belongs to Crossroads is encouraged and challenged to be doing ministry in the work place, the community in which they live and within Crossroads.

Key Leadership Scriptures

Romans 12:4-6

Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you.

Ephesians 4:11-12

Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.

 1 Peter 5:1-2

And now, a word to you who are elders in the church…I appeal to you: Care for the flock that God has entrusted to you. Watch over it willingly, not grudgingly—not for what you will get out of it, but because you are eager to serve God.

Acts 20:17-28

…he [Paul] sent a message to the elders of the church at Ephesus…When they arrived he declared...guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as elders.