Are you small enough to be used by God?

Today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains that God is not looking for impressive

resumes when it comes to establishing effective leadership in a local church.

So what should we be looking for in our church leaders?

Here's Alistair.

To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ's sufferings, and

one who also will share in the glory to be revealed, the shepherds of God's flock that

is under your care, serving as overseers not because you must, but because you are willing

as God wants you to be, not greedy for money but eager to serve, not lording it over

those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

And when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never

fade away.

I want this morning to come to the brief study that we have engaged in in the church for

a final time by considering the priority which the New Testament gives to the establishing

of effective leadership in the church, the priority that the New Testament gives to the

establishing of effective leadership in the church.

How are we going to determine this?

Well, the answer is, of course, by reading the Bible and looking into the Bible to see

whether there is actually this priority.

And where we would look would be not to the gospels which finish with the ascension of

the Lord Jesus, but first of all to the acts of the apostles, which is if you like the

minute book of the early church, and then into the epistles themselves to see what the

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