Are You Qualified by Your House?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Household management: It is a Biblical qualification for ministry and one to be taken seriously. So when is one actually disqualified for the ministry by the way he runs his home? What does good management even look like? The finger is easily pointed at children, but maybe it's how the father reacts to his child’s behavior that’s more telling. There's no easy answer on this one, but it's one requiring much discernment in studying Paul’s litmus test in 1 Timothy 3.The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to offer you a free MP3 download entitled Recovering Pastoral Piety by David Strain. Discount is applied at checkout.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman,
0:23.5	Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing
0:29.8	Evangelicals. There are many qualifications in the Bible pastors and elders have to meet to serve in ministry.
0:37.3	Did you know that how you conduct your household is one of them?
0:40.8	Does a pastor get disqualified by what his family does, or how he acts as head of his family?
0:47.3	What's Paul trying to tell us anyway?
0:50.1	Let's join the hosts for this conversation.
0:58.1	Thank you. Let's join the hosts for this conversation. Well, today on the podcast, we want to revisit a topic we've addressed before, but to do it in a
1:03.8	slightly different way.
1:05.2	We want to talk about biblical qualifications for eldership and ministry, but to focus in particular on one that arises
1:14.4	out of an image that Paul is particularly fond of in his pastoral epistles.
1:19.2	And that is the picture of household management, where Paul says that it's important for an elder
1:25.3	to be a good manager of his household because if a man
1:29.5	cannot manage his own household, how can he manage the household of God? And I thought we'd start
1:35.4	by asking Amy as the token woman on the podcast how her own household is managed. Amy, I'm thinking
1:42.8	particularly of First Peter chapter 3, describing the household of one of the
1:50.4	great patriarchs of the faith.
1:52.7	Abraham, we hear this.
1:54.4	This is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by submitting to
1:58.4	their own husbands as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him
2:02.1	Lord.
2:03.1	Mm-hmm.
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