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Essential Qualities and Qualifications for Church Elders

This lesson provides a comprehensive review of the positive qualifications necessary for elders in the church, based on the biblical standards found in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. Key attributes include being blameless, of good behavior, patient, vigilant, and sober-minded. Elders should exhibit love for good deeds and hospitality, demonstrate a commitment to their families, and possess the ability to teach effectively. This guide emphasizes the importance of being a man of one wife and ruling well over one's household, as well as being firm in gospel truths to effectively defend and lead within the church community.

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Essential Qualities and Qualifications for Church Elders

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  1. Elders- Positive Qualifications

  2. Review Of Previous Lesson • Must Be A Man • Must Desire The Office • Blameless (KJV) or Without Reproach (ASV) • Of Good Behavior (KJV) or Orderly (ASV) • Patient

  3. Review Of Previous Lesson • Vigilant • Sober (KJV) or Sober Minded (ASV) • Temperate (KJV) & Self-controlled (ASV) • Just • Holy

  4. Review Of Previous Lesson • Have A Good Report Of Them That Are Without

  5. Given To Hospitality • 1 Tim. 3:2 • Titus 1:8 • “Elders should be courteous, friendly, , and kindly disposed” • “A lover of strangers” • Rom. 12:13

  6. A Lover Of Good Men (KJV) Or A Lover Of Good (ASV) • Titus 1:8 • “ a lover of good deeds, good things, good people, good in general” • 2 Tim. 3:3 • Phil. 4:8

  7. Apt to teach • 1 Tim. 3:2 • “skilled in teaching” • “This demands a knowledge of the word, plus the ability to convey the message to others.”James Boyd

  8. Husband Of One Wife • 1 Tim. 3:2 • Titus 1:6 • They are to be family men married to one woman • Heb. 13:4

  9. Rule Well His Own House Or Family • 1 Tim. 3:4-5 • Titus 1:6

  10. Faithful, Able, Willing • Titus 1:9-11 • Must be men who are firm in what they know to be true-men who are “sold” on the gospel • They must use their knowledge and wisdom to defend the truth

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