The Importance of Elders in the Church

I think the basic answer I would give is formally, no, they have the same authority. They're one of the elders. And that answer is only really going to make sense if it's actually the elders as a whole who are shepherding and directing the church. At the elder table, marks your boss as a staff matter. Does that constrain how you vote? If you know Mark's going to go this way, but you feel like, yeah, I want to go that way. Doesn't that affect your ability to kind of vote honestly?