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Attitudes When Selecting Elders

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  • Keep emotions in check
    • Titus 1:4
    • Consider two scenarios:
      • There are objections to a certain man’s qualifications
        • I Timothy 4:12
        • The members start “taking sides”
          • I Corinthians 1:11-13
          • Take the qualifications seriously, given the work.
            • Able to teach
              • I Timothy 3:2 - Elders need to be able to teach so that they can take the lead in defending against error.
              • Aspires/desires the work
                • I Timothy 3:1
                • Sensible, just, devout
                  • Hebrews 5:14
                  • Temperate, gentle, peacable, not pugnacious
                    • I Thessalonians 5:12-15
                    • Don’t be stricter than God
                      • I Peter 5:1
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