Thank you.

I'm going to be.

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I'm going to Not everyone is cut out for church leadership.

In Titus Chapter 1, the Apostle Paul lays out a helpful list of characteristics to look for in elders.

Alistair Begg points out that there's one particular qualification that is absolutely

essential for church leadership to be truly effective, and we'll find out what that is

today on Truth for Life weekend.

The directive concerning the eldership is above reproach, unimpeachable, but not faultless and not flawless.

And in verse 7, as he begins to articulate something of what it means for an overseer as the

steward or the manager of God's household to live above reproach, he then gives us, as we began

to look at them, five must-nots and six musts. We were immediately confronted by the must not of arrogance or pride. He must not

be arrogant. And we acknowledge the peculiar challenges that attach to individuals who are put in

positions of leadership and responsibility. If one is not careful, it becomes the very occasion of arrogance

and pride, which is not to be a feature of the elder. Nor, secondly, is there to be toleration

for quick-temperedness? And this, of course, is another great challenge, isn't it? Because

when you lead people and you

want to see things happen in a certain way, it's very possible that in losing patience with the

ability of the individual to get in line, to understand, to fit in, and so on, that instead of responding as Jesus,

the Chief Shepherd responded and acted, we respond in a way that is a product not of any

kind of righteous anger, but is a product of selfishness. And we know from James's writing

that man's anger is a hindrance to the work of God. The anger of man

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