Acts 20: 32 ” Now I commit you to God and to the Word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”

The apostle Paul was on what you might call his Farewell Tour. He had called together the Elders of the Church in Ephesus in order that he might remind them of just how far that Church had come. Paul had invested himself for three years there…both in public & private teaching and instruction in God’s Word…and now was the time for the Elders to step up and step into the role of Shepherds and Overseers. He charged them with, “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the Church of God, which He bought with His own blood.” (Acts 20:28) Paul could easily be speaking to the Church today as Baby-Boomer Pastors and Elders are retiring at an increasing rate. He is charging the younger generation to heed the call and step up to serve the local Church.