1 Timothy 3:1-7
- Adam Bailie
- October 14, 2007
- Series: Pastoral Epistles: Loving, Leading, Learning
- Category: Evening Bible Hour
- Passage: 1 Timothy 3:1–3:7
- Summary: Adam preaches 1 Tim. 3:1-7. Christ clearly demands that elders meet His qualifications. His standards are high, but they must be clearly understood and insistently upheld in the Church.
1 Timothy 3:1-7
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.