Most who are appointed as Elders are not the loving shepherds they love to proclaim they are. They are merely administrators and Governors who walk around with a self entitled air of importance. Many believe that every word that comes out of their mouth is the utterance of Jehovah. What makes it worse is that there are just as many people in the congregation dumber than the elders who actually believe that.
Most of them have accomplished very little outside of the organization other than putting in 90 hours a month in field service. 85 of those hours are spent driving around or camped out in a Starbucks. Most are in NO WAY qualified to give any advise on marriage, sex, medical, financial, and in many cases, even spiritual. Some can’t even pronounce words like Deuteronomy or Ecclesiastes correctly. All they can do is consult old publications or make a phone call to the branch to tell them what to do.