Elders (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The appointing of elders to oversee and care for the congregation according to God’s Word is crucial. Learn what to look for, and find out why marriage and parenting are the true testing grounds for leadership. That’s on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. The Apostle Paul made it a high priority to appoint elders in local churches who would oversee and shepherd and care for the congregation according to God's word. |
| 0:36.3 | So what should we look for in modern day elders? |
| 0:40.2 | We'll find out today on Truth for Life weekend as we consider why marriage and parenting |
| 0:44.8 | are the true testing grounds for leadership. |
| 0:48.2 | Alistair Begg is teaching from Titus chapter one, beginning with verse five. |
| 0:57.9 | All right. chapter one, beginning with verse 5. If you read through the Acts of the Apostles, you will see that very quickly, elders were being |
| 1:03.5 | put in place in the church. And as you read through Paul on his missionary journeys, you find |
| 1:08.7 | that he is not only going, first of all, to |
| 1:11.0 | evangelize, but in many cases he is coming back in order to make sure that those who have now |
| 1:17.0 | professed faith in Jesus, these fledgling groups of individuals, will then be galvanized and |
| 1:23.6 | structured within the framework of leadership as God intends. |
| 1:28.8 | Now, clearly, this is a man-sized task, and it is not entrusted to an individual, |
| 1:35.0 | but it is entrusted to a plurality of individuals. |
| 1:39.2 | And when we read the New Testament, not only here, but elsewhere, |
| 1:42.2 | we discover that there is safety in numbers, |
| 1:47.0 | safety in numbers. And the New Testament guards against the proclivity of an individual |
| 1:54.0 | to seek to exercise a jurisdiction which is not theirs to exercise. So it is a very happy thing when a church |
| 2:04.6 | understands a biblical structure. But, and we'll move on from this, it is also vitally important |
| 2:12.6 | that we recognize that structure alone is not the issue. You can have perfect structure in a dead body. And the vital thing is that it is the spirit of God filling out the framework that God has determined is to be the framework as he gives it to us in His Word. |
| 2:37.7 | Well, that's enough concerning the function itself. You can come back to that on your own. |
| 2:42.1 | Let's go immediately to the way in which he addresses the characteristics of these individuals. |
| 2:47.7 | If anyone is above reproach, there you have it in verse six, and then verse seven again, |
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