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Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

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 endeavored to give you a picture of what the scripture says about

the pastor, the pastors, 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, 1st and 2 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.

So let's go to 1 Corinthians 4, and I just want to mention verses 1 and 2 as a starting point,

and then we'll get into this chapter.

So let me read that.

Let a man regard us in this manner as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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