The Webster Bible Church Podcast
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Transformative Truth:
Overseeing the church is excellent work, which requires men of excellent character.
1. Overseeing the church is an excellent work.
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, which he obtained with his own blood.
Acts 20:28
You know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
1 Peter 1:18-19
Overseeing the church is excellent work, which requires men of excellent character.
2. Overseers must be men of excellent character.
Above reproach
The husband of one wife
Sober-minded, Self-controlled, Respectable
Hospitable
Able to teach
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instructions in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
Titus 1:9
Not a drunkard
Not violent
Gentle
Not quarrelsome
Not a lover of money
Must manage his own household well ...
Not a recent convert
Be well thought of by outsiders
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