21. Ideal Church Leaders
Eph. 4:11-12; 1 Tim. 4:11-16; 2 Tim. 2:15; 2 Cor. 4:7; 1 Peter 4:10
Leader reads the plain lines; the congregation reads the bold lines.
He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
These things command and teach. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
