Elders as Theological Watchdogs

1 Timothy 4:1-6 | Building a Healthy Church | Trent Hunter Why do some among us fall away? We get one answer in 1 John 2:19: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.” When someone falls away they do so because they never belonged to us in the first place. But in 1 Timothy 4:1–6 we get another set of answers. Demons are involved, so are false understandings about God. How does God keep and protect His own? He does so, in part, though the vigilant labor of theological watchdogs, sheepdogs called, elders.