God refines the church by identifying and commanding the humble character of the Church’s faithful shepherds and the humble responses of the Church’s true sheep. So I exhort the elders … shepherd the flock … exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock… Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”