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).

8. 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)

9. Contagious Leadership Disease A I D S Acquired Integrity Deficiency Syndrome

10. 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)

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

15. 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)

17. 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)

19. 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)

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

21. 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)

22. T e a c h i n g

23. “…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)

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