The Session of Christ Community Church consists of individuals who are called by God and elected by our congregation to fulfill the duty of leading our church. Their primary role is to be overseers of the spiritual and theological direction of the church according to God's Word and under the direction of the PCA's Book of Church Order. Nominations are taken at specific times throughout the year for the office of Elder. Each candidate undergoes a training process and oversight by the Session before being ordained as an officer.
The main requirements for holding the office of Elder are found in Titus 1:
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. Since an overseer is entrusted with God's work, he must be blameless--not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to durnkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. Rather he must be hospitalbe, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
Welcome New Servant Leaders
The following men were elected to Servant Leadership positions by an overwhelming majority in a called meeting on January 10th. These men will be installed as officers of Christ Community Church on Janaury 31, 2010.
Elder: Tim Tan
Deacons: Ryan Duncan, Mark Howell, Joe Salvatore
CCC expects that the individual in an office or other leadership position should meet any and all Biblical requirements for that position.
CCC expects that the individual would subscribe to the tenets presented in the Westminster Catechism of Faith.
CCC expects that the individual in an office or other leadership would perform in the position in accord with the Book of Church Order.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be able to preach the Gospel to themselves.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be actively supportive of the Strategic Plan of the church and work through appropriate channels to affect change to that Plan where needed.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be willing and able to walk in love with the members of the congregation providing them with counsel from God’s word, support from their own available resources where appropriate and correction where necessary.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be willing and able to protect both the peace and the purity of the local expression of the church as well as the church universal.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be students, first of God’s Word then of any appropriate body of knowledge that would provide them greater ability to do the job to which they were called.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be able to rightly handle sensitive and confidential information knowing what should be spoken of outside of a meeting and what should not be spoken outside of a meeting.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would show appropriate deference and respect to all other officers and leaders of the church thereby creating a body of “co-officers” rather than a “hierarchy of command.”
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be people of prayer, trusting only God for what only God can do.
CCC expects that the officers and leaders of the church would be people of margin.