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New Testament Eldership

New Testament Eldership. Part 4 Qualifications. Necessity for Qualifications. To protect the church To help improve the elders ’ character To help improve the elders’ skills. Spirit-Given Desire .

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New Testament Eldership

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  1. New Testament Eldership Part 4 Qualifications

  2. Necessity for Qualifications • To protect the church • To help improve the elders’ character • To help improve the elders’ skills

  3. 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).

  4. 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).

  5. 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).

  6. 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)

  7. Contagious Leadership Disease

  8. 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)

  9. Reputation • “Above reproach” (1 Tim. 3:2, Titus 1:6) • “Respectable” (1 Tim. 3:2) • “Well thought of by outsiders” (1 Tim. 3:7)

  10. 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)

  11. 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)

  12. 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)

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

  14. 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)

  15. T e a c h i n g

  16. 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)

  17. New Testament Eldership Part 4 www.BiblicalEldership.com

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