There are three synonymous qualifications for elders discussed by Randy Ballard in today’s article: temperate, sober-minded, and self-controlled. While these words share similar meanings, the slight nuanced differences between them reveal why Paul used all three as part of his standard for what an elder must be.
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Today’s article goes hand in hand with last week when Greg Gay discussed the first domestic qualification that an elder must be the husband of one wife. The focus in this second article from Greg is on the elder’s children. As Greg himself will note in the article, the question of interpreting “faithful children” has been a historic and current controversy and Greg offers what he believes is a safe position.
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The domestic qualifications given to elders are some of the more challenging to understand. Greg Gay tries to help us work through what it means for an elder to be “the husband of one wife.”
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There are a number of ways to view the qualifications for elders listed in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. Many likely see them as a list of qualities by which Christians grade men, but Ron Courter proposes another view which may be more helpful for our overall understanding of the purpose and role of elders.
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In 2020, the Christian’s Expositor Journal published a series of articles relating to the eldership. Nate Bibens called upon over a dozen preachers and elders to contribute articles relating to the nature, work, and mostly, the qualifications of elders. These articles were well written and worthy of much consideration, so we asked Nate if he would let us produce audio recordings of the series and he agreed. Over the next several months we plan to release one audio article per week for all our listeners out there and we’re very excited about it.
We want to acknowledge that there is historic controversy about some of the elder qualifications and the views expressed by the authors of these articles may not reflect the views of those associated with Christian Landmark, but we still believe them worthy of study, so we hope you will enjoy and share.
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