The Duties of the Eldership Just as their Savior, the Good Shepherd, looked with compassion on the multitudes and saw them as sheep having no shepherd (John 10:11, 14; Matt. 9:36), so also elders are to “take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd [ποιμαίνειν, poimainein] the church of God” (Acts 20:28).5 Peter likewise instructed elders: “Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but