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Now for this morning, I want to take us back to 1 Corinthians chapter 4. As I said last

week, I've been talking to you about the church and what the church should be, and I thought

that you deserved equal time for what the pastor ought to be.

So last week, we endeavor to give you a picture of what the Scripture says about the pastor,

spiritual leaders, those who have the responsibility to represent Christ among his people and feed

the flock of God.

What is required of them?

And there are so many passages in Scripture that deal with this.

In fact, first and second Timothy and Titus, all three of those brief epistles deal in

detail with that, and many other portions of Scripture do as well.

But I've chosen 1 Corinthians 4 because I think it boils everything down to the sort of

irreducible minimum, and that will be helpful, I hope, for you.

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