New Testament Eldership Part 4 Qualifications. Necessity for Qualifications To protect the church To help improve the elders’ character To help improve.

New Testament Eldership

Part 4Qualifications

Necessity for Qualifications

To protect the church

To help improve the elders’ character

To help improve the elders’ skills

Spirit-Given Desire

Spirit given: “Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God” (Acts 20:28).

Spirit-Given Desire

Personal desire: “The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task” (1 Tim. 3:1).

Spirit-Given Desire

Obedient: “Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly” (1 Peter 5:2).

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Integrity

“Being examples to the flock” (1 Peter 5:3)

“Not greedy for gain” (Titus 1:7)

“Upright” (Titus 1:8)

“Above reproach” (1 Tim. 3:2, Titus 1:6)“Hold firm to trustworthy word as taught” (Titus 1:9)

“Holy” (Titus 1:8)

Contagious Leadership Disease

AIDS

AcquiredIntegrityDeficiencySyndrome

Integrity

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them with his skillful hands. (Ps 78:72)

“[Man of integrity]swears to his own hurt and does not change” (Ps 15:4)

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Reputation

“Above reproach” (1 Tim. 3:2, Titus 1:6)

“Respectable” (1 Tim. 3:2)

“Well thought of by outsiders” (1 Tim. 3:7)

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Family Life

“Husband of one wife” (1 Tim 3:2, Titus 1:6)

“Manage his own household well” (1 Tim 3:4)

“His children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination” (Titus 1:6)

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Personal

“Sober-minded” (1 Tim 3:2)

“Lover of what is good”

“Not recent convert”

“Disciplined” (Titus 1:8)

“Not a drunkard” (1 Tim. 3:3)

“Self-Controlled” (Titus 1:8)

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

Relational

“Not quick tempered” (Titus 1:7)

“Not quarrelsome” (1 Tim. 3:3)

“Not arrogant” (Titus 1:7) NASB: “self-willed”

“Gentle” (1 Tim. 3:3)

Relational

… Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say. (3 Jn 9)

Relational

“Not quick tempered” (Titus 1:7)

“Not quarrelsome” (1 Tim. 3:3)

“Not arrogant” (Titus 1:7) NASB: “self-willed”

“Gentle” (1 Tim. 3:3)

“Upright” (Titus 1:8)

“Hospitable” (1 Tim 3:2, Ti 1:8)

Integrity

Reputation

Family Life

Personal

Relational

T e a c h i n g

Teaching

“…be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it” (Titus 1:9)

“… able to teach” (1 Tim. 3:3)

New Testament Eldership

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