Elders are men who have family lives that are blameless.
Elders are men who live sensitive, sensible and sacrificial life styles. Elders are men who know sound doctrine. Send me a few good men if you want to build a church. Possibly following Pentecost, when Cretans were in attendance in Jerusalem and brought the gospel back to Crete, or during Paul's voyage to Rome when his ship stopped at Crete, or during Paul's fourth missionary journey between his two Roman imprisonments when Paul left Titus in Crete. The terms are used for the same church positions, but with different designations.