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S5:011 Acts 6:1-7 – Care and correction in the Church

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Devotional, Bible, Christianity, Christian, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What should care and correction in the church look like? How should followers of Jesus care for widows in their church body? In this episode, Watermark elder Todd Anders joins Emma Dotter to discuss Acts 6:1-7 and what it means to be a shepherding church, the five aspects of a shepherd, and the “one another” commands in Scripture. Then, faithful Watermark member Melanie Graber describes her experience in being cared for by the church and offers practical advice on caring for widows. 


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Exodus 17: 11; 18: 21-22; Ephesians 4: 15; 2 Peter 3: 9; Psalm 23 


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0:00.0

All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests.

0:04.1

You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

0:09.4

Thanks for joining.

0:10.6

Today, we are reading Acts 6, 1 through 7.

0:13.9

We'll be answering two questions, but the first is,

0:16.7

what does it mean to be a shepherding church?

0:19.6

And here with me today is one of our Watermark

0:22.0

elders, Todd Anders. Hi, Emma. How are you? I'm doing very well, Todd. Thank you for saying yes

0:27.3

to being on the podcast. You've been on before, but now we're on camera. So I appreciate your

0:31.7

willingness. It's so kind of you to invite me. So I really appreciate the opportunity.

0:36.9

Good. I'm glad. Well, I'm certain we're going to

0:39.3

learn a lot. And as I considered today's text, Act 6, it's not directly about the role of elders or

0:45.6

shepherding, but we see an example of shepherding. We see care and responsibility being shared

0:52.2

within the church as the widows are cared for.

0:54.8

And so as we begin, would you clarify two things for us?

0:58.3

The first is, what is an elder?

1:01.1

And then the second is, what does it mean?

1:03.5

When we say that phrase, a shepherding church, what do we mean by those two terms?

1:08.6

Elder, shepherding church.

1:10.5

All right. So Christ is the good shepherd, and ultimately they added the church.

1:15.3

And Christ says that there are under shepherds. There are people under his leadership who he's going to really look to to give an account for the health of a local body.

1:28.5

And those are people that we call elder.

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