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Titus 1:5-9
“You live your life and i’ll live my life.”
mentality doesn’t apply in the church and especially among the leadership within the church.
In the church of the living God we do care what other’s think!
Our conduct, our witness, our reputation either helps build a bridge to Christ/or it may well burn a bridge.
Christian leadership seeks to make the gospel credible through our example.
A Pastor/Elder/Overseer must have an untarnished reputation.
ἀνέγκλητος - anegklatos “Above Reproach” means One who cannot be accused of anything wrong.
It has the idea of someone who cannot be criticized.
This is someone who can’t even be accused.
anegklḗtou “Above Reproach” means One who cannot be accused of anything wrong.
It has the idea of someone who cannot be criticized.
This is someone who can’t even be accused.
Pastors/Elders/Overseers must be exemplary in their conduct but not perfect.
ἀνέγκλητος - “Above Reproach” means One who cannot be accused of anything wrong.
It has the idea of someone who cannot be criticized.
This is someone who can’t even be accused.
Elders are to live exemplary lives.
They are to be those who both proclaim the gospel and model it in their lives.
one who cannot be accused of anything wrong
This means 4 specific things
1. purity
Godly leaders are men of marital purity.
This text is not teaching about his marital history - it is teaching about his marital fidelity.
In Greek Culture it was common, especially among the affluent, to have slaves and among those slaves female slaves who their masters used for conjugal reasons.
The affluent man would also be married and have a wife with whom he would be physically interment.
He would also go the the temple where there would be cult prostitutes.
He would again indulge himself in the immorality of the pagan worship practices.
His life was marked by multiple women.
In contrast to that the overseers of the church were to have an exclusive relationship with their wives.
“They were literally to be a one woman man”.
Unfortunately this text has been made to say what it simply doesn’t say.
This text is not teaching about divorce and remarriage.
This text is not teaching about marital status but marital fatality.
2. authority
Godly leaders are men who exercise appropriate authority.
The Pater/elder/overseer must maintain proper leadership within his family.
“believers” - πιστός -
This is a parallel phase to what Paul spoke about the qualifications of elders in his letter to Timothy.
The emphasis is on the responsibility of the father.
No parent no matter how godly can guarantee the conversion of his children.
This text speaks to their behavior not certain conversion.
If he shows a lack of spiritual authority at home why would the church expect his oversight to be different within the congregation.
3. Integrity
tit 17
John Maxwell stated,
Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less.
Not only does his words matter but his walk matters.
He is not a haughty man.
He is not a hotheaded man.
He is not an addicted man.
THE GREEK SCHOLARS LOUW & NIDA DEFINE THIS WORD AS
πάροινος, ου m: a person who habitually drinks too much
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 772.a person who habitually drinks too much
He is not a dangerous man.
- the word literally means “a striker” At home, in the community, or at church.
He is not a greedy man.
He is a Godly man!
The gospel we preach must not be contradicted by the life we lead.
tit 1:
The Pastor/Elder/Oversee’s office is one where words and works are inseparable.
The message that is preached with your lips must not be a message that is contradicted with your life.
That’s what made Christ so powerful!
His words were verified by his works!
A standard of biblical consistency or as I have described it integrity.
4. Orthodoxy
4. Orthodoxy
Godly leaders are men who are sound theologically.
Hold fast - means strongly cling to -
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