That was a great video!
It really brings out the meaning behind Matthew 16:24-26.
(Matthew 16:25-26) For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 Really, what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
If you ask an elder to tell you about his life, he will tell you all of the things he does as an elder since his life revolves around that. He would naturally try and hold on to that life. But, as the video points out, there is a dividing work going on.
But as verse 24 brings out, the elder has to decide who he wants to
"come after", the GB, or Christ.
(Matthew 16:24) Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone wants to come after
me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and keep following me.
And as Luke 9:22 points out, when you pick up your own torture stake you will also
"be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed."
How are you killed? Since they apply Matthew 18:18 to their judicial decisions, they believe that their rejection of you is a death sentence if you do not convince them to forgive you before Armageddon strikes.
Hopefully good elders will not try to save their present life as an elder by abandoning their Christian principles and meet the same end as the Baal worshippers of 2 Kings 10:25 and the weeds of Matthew 13:30.