1 Timothy 3:1-13
Everything was going fine until the moving truck stopped, for no apparent reason, and my head hit the windshield. Two college friends and I were just trying to return the empty moving truck. We missed the entrance gate for the return lot, so we just went around the block. Being in the passenger seat, I volunteered to get out at the corner and open the gate into the lot. We simply did not make it that far. Between us and the gate was a bridge that was lower than the truck. We hit the bridge and pealed the top of the truck like a can opener. The sudden stop threw me forward into the windshield. The calm of a day helping someone move came to a screeching halt with a now crumpled moving truck. I ended up with two black eyes, multiple bruises, and a very sore neck. We assumed the bridge was tall enough and we did not have the wisdom or foresight to stop and check. In much the same way a church needs wise, godly men who will lead and serve by giving oversight to the ongoing ministry. In 1 Timothy 3 Paul helps Timothy by providing a framework for selecting leaders in the church. Paul looks back to the crumpled wreck that Hymenaeus and Alexander made of their lives and of the church through their false teaching (1:20). He now provides Timothy a check list of sorts, that will keep Timothy and the church in Ephesus from another disastrous wreck from false teaching. Like an accident, false teaching damages the church and hurts people. Paul wants to see elders who oversee the spiritual health and teaching in the church (1), and deacons who faithfully serve to meet the physical needs within the church (8). Today, the church still needs godly examples of faith and faithful service that bring health and healing not hurt. Will you be that?
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Everything was going fine until the moving truck stopped, for no apparent reason, and my head hit the windshield. Two college friends and I were just trying to return the empty moving truck. We missed the entrance gate for the return lot, so we just went around the block. Being in the passenger seat, I volunteered to get out at the corner and open the gate into the lot. We simply did not make it that far. Between us and the gate was a bridge that was lower than the truck. We hit the bridge and pealed the top of the truck like a can opener. The sudden stop threw me forward into the windshield. The calm of a day helping someone move came to a screeching halt with a now crumpled moving truck. I ended up with two black eyes, multiple bruises, and a very sore neck. We assumed the bridge was tall enough and we did not have the wisdom or foresight to stop and check. In much the same way a church needs wise, godly men who will lead and serve by giving oversight to the ongoing ministry. In 1 Timothy 3 Paul helps Timothy by providing a framework for selecting leaders in the church. Paul looks back to the crumpled wreck that Hymenaeus and Alexander made of their lives and of the church through their false teaching (1:20). He now provides Timothy a check list of sorts, that will keep Timothy and the church in Ephesus from another disastrous wreck from false teaching. Like an accident, false teaching damages the church and hurts people. Paul wants to see elders who oversee the spiritual health and teaching in the church (1), and deacons who faithfully serve to meet the physical needs within the church (8). Today, the church still needs godly examples of faith and faithful service that bring health and healing not hurt. Will you be that?
For More See 1 TIMOTHY
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