[:en]OVERSSERS AND DEACONS (vs. 1-16)
Overseers are pastors, church leaders or elders.
Qualifications of an overseer : (vs. 2-7)
- Above reproach
- Husband of one wife
- Temperate, self-controlled, respectable, able to teach
- Not given to drunkenness
- Not violent, but gentle
- Not quarreling, not a lover of money
- Must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect
- Not a recent convert
- Have a good reputation with outsiders
Deacon means “one who serves”
Qualifications of a deacon (vs. 8- 10)
- Men worthy of respect
- Sincere
- Not indulging in much wine
- Not pursuing dishonest gain
- Keep hold of deep truths of faith with clear conscience
- Be tested with nothing against them
- Their wives are to be woman worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything
- Husband of one wife
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