I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. All right if you would open your Bibles up to

1st Peter Chapter 5.

And here we are talking about leadership because that's what Peter is talking about in this passage.

And I'm going to give you guys a quick recap because last time

we started this passage and we dealt with some of the things that Peter said so

let me just read to you versus one and two. He says this.

The elders who are among you I exhort. I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the

sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the glory which will be revealed.

So it's to the elders.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but

willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly eagerly and he goes on and gives several more

instructions for leaders in the church.

So this brings up the term elders we went over this last week but here's a quick recap. Elder, overseer,

Bishop, and pastor are synonymous terms in the scriptures, meaning they're all the

same person. So elder is pastor, Bishop, an overseer is also an elder. This is, last, you could look at

last week's video on YouTube if you want to check that out, the details on that,

we'll quote the verses on why we see it that way. The only other

position we see in the church in the New Testament other than elder

is Deacon, Elder and Deacon and Deacon seems to have a lesser responsibility

but still an important one.

I think Stephen is a good example of someone who is a deacon who was brought in to do ministry

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