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2023-12-05

The David Alliance TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com 3. Hiring or Empowering Qualified Pastors/Elders/Overseers The list of qualifications for pastors/elders/overseers is lengthy! The two most prominent passages that list these qualifications are 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus 1:5–9. The qualifications concern two areas: character and teaching ability. First, for a man to be a qualified pastor/elder/overseer, he must be able to know and teach correct doctrine. Second, he must meet a lengthy list of character requi...

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3. Hiring or Empowering Qualified Pastors/Elders/Overseers

The list of qualifications for pastors/elders/overseers is lengthy! The two most prominent passages that list these qualifications are 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus 1:5–9. The qualifications concern two areas: character and teaching ability. First, for a man to be a qualified pastor/elder/overseer, he must be able to know and teach correct doctrine. Second, he must meet a lengthy list of character requirements.

Why are qualified pastors/elders/overseers harder and harder to find? Well, 90% of all men look at porn. 60% or more have vacillating and changing biblical doctrine and beliefs regarding family, sex, morality, AND THE MAJORITY OF PASTORS IN TODAYS WORLD “AS CHRISTIANS” HAD NOT KEPT THEIR VIRGINITY UNTIL MARRIAGE… The crop from which to choose from is dismal and in face shrinking yearly.

4. Discipling Church Members

The fourth challenge for the church is discipling its people.

For many church members, the most discipleship they receive is the Sunday morning sermon.

Most Christians are discipled more by western society than the Bible.

When was the last time you heard a conversation where someone said “Well the Bible says….?

Churches lack solid bible study… by that I mean they actually study the Bible.. and not a bible study book or DVD or video or YT channel or a social media post… but they pick up their bibles and they understand how to parse, compare and study the scriptures.

One problem is that people don’t know the tools to use, or have access to them…

BTW the internet is a poor choice for a tool when it comes to true Bible study.

5. Adopting and Defending Sexual Purity

A mountainous challenge for the church in the West is sexual purity. Sexual purity refers to God-sanctioned sexual conduct, which is sexual conduct only within a marriage between one man and one woman. All other sexual activity and conduct is considered sexual immorality Failure to preach and teach sexual ethics according to the Bible