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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