Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

How do you become a good leader?

I mean, a mom, a dad that's a good leader in your home.

How do you become a good leader at work?

How do you lead where God has you?

Because we all have influence, and that's what leadership is.

Today we're going to talk about what the Apostle Paul teaches Timothy about how to be a good leader.

Stay with me.

What kind of person does God actually use? Well, today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram

opens to First Timothy Chapter 3 and walks us through the profile Paul gave his young protege

Timothy, the qualities that make a leader above reproach. But Chip's point is bigger than a checklist

for church elders. The underlying word he keeps pressing on is integrity, not just honesty, but integration,

faith woven into every relationship, every conversation, every corner of your life.

I'm Dave Drewie, and we're in a series called You Can Make Disciples Personal Coaching from

the Apostle Paul.

Today's lesson is titled, Step In.

So we're in chapter 3, 1 Timothy, we pick it up.

It is a trustworthy statement.

If any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.

And then he says, an overseer or an elder,

must be above reproach the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,

skillful, and teaching. All pretty positive. Not indulging in much wine, not a bully, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.

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