The following qualifications are taken from Mark Driscoll's forthcoming book entitled A Book You'll Actually Read: On Church Leadership (Crossway, June 2008). When I think about the role of Pastor and what is expected of me in the sight of the Lord I have an overwhelming thought of dependence on grace given to me through Jesus Christ.Qualifications taken from 1 Tim 3:1-7
Relation to God
1) A man: a masculine leader, a dudely dude
2) Above reproach: without character defect
3) Able to teach: effective Bible communicator
4) Not a new convert: mature Christian
Relation to Family
5) Husband of one wife: one - woman man, sexually pure (this does not require a man to be married, as Paul, Timothy, Jesus, and widowed men could qualify).
6) Submissive children: successful father
7) Manages family well: provides for, leads, organizes, loves
Relation to Self
8) Sober-minded: mentally & emotionally stable
9) Self-controlled: disciplined life of sound decision making
10) Not a drunkard: without addictions
11) Not a lover of money: financially content & upright
Relation to Others
12) Respectable: worth following and imitating
13) Hospitable: welcomes strangers, especially non-Christians, for evangelism
14) Not violent: even-tempered
15) Gentle: kind, gracious, loving
16) Not quarrelsome: peaceable, not divisive or contentious
17) Well though of by outsiders: respected by non-Christians
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