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“Leadership Matters (Verb) – I” Titus 1:5-9

It matters who you are as a leader and it matters what you do as a leader. “God is primarily interested in who you are and then what you do” (Daniel Akin).

“The Pastoral Crucible”

I. Leadership Directives (1:1-16) II. Lifestyle Duties (2:1-10)

• III. Liberating Demonstrations

(2:11-3:15)

“Everything Rises And Falls On Leadership”

Five Messages On Leadership

Leadership Matters (Verb) Who You Are Titus 1:5-9 (Quest & Qualifications) Leadership Matters (Noun) What You Do Titus 1:10-16 (Restraining & Reprimanding)

Titus 1:5-9

Daniel Akin

I. Godly Commitments (5-6)

• II. Godly Conduct (7)
• III. Godly Character (8)
• IV. Godly Convictions (9)

Quest & Qualifications

“God’s standards for leadership in the church are high, a basic and extremely crucial truth that many evangelical churches today either deny or ignore. NT standards for Pastors are

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lowered, selectively applied, or simply ignored.”

• I. The Quest For Elders (5)
• A. The Mission Field – Crete
• B. The Man – Titus

Character – Competency – Chemistry

• C. The Mission – Straighten
• 1. Address False Teachers
• 2. Inter-Generational Mentoring
• 3. Teach Grace To Turn From Sin
• 4. Deal With Divisive People
• 5. Other Issues

• D. The Mandate – Appoint

Titles

1. Elders (Presbuteros) – Their Dignity

• 2. Overseer (Episcopos) – Their Duty
• 3. Steward (Oikonomos) – Their Deference

• D. The Mandate – Appoint

Process

1. Holy Spirit (Acts 20:28) 2. Prayer (Acts 13:2-3) 3. Fasting (Acts 13:2-3) 4. Discernment (Titus 1; I Timothy 3; I Peter 5; Acts 20)

• D. The Mandate – Appoint

Principles

1. Not Self-Appointed 2. Not Solo (Plurality) 3. Masculine

• II. The Qualifications

For Elder (6-9)

Max Anders

“Though Paul did not insist

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perfection, he did require that the leader live above blame,

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beyond accusation.”

Richard Baxter

“Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, lest you unsay with your lives what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hinderers of success of your own labors.”

• A. Above Reproach

Only One To Be Repeated In Titus

Call Into Account, Unreproveable, Blameless “Implies not merely acquittal, but the absence

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person” (W. E. Vine).

• A. Above Reproach

This speaks of high integrity and from living “above reproach” flow all the

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Colossians 1:21-23; II Thessalonians 3:9; I Peter 5:3; Psalms 15:1-2; 78:70-72

• B. The Husband Of One Wife

Literally “One Woman Kind Of Man”

• 1. Eliminates Polygamy
• 2. Eliminates Same-Sex
• 3. Eliminates Unfaithful Husband
• 4. Does Not Eliminate Widower
• 5. Does Not Eliminate Never Married

• 6. Does It Eliminate The

Previously Divorced?

Issues To Consider

• a. Unbiblical Or Non-Adulterous
• b. Pre-Conversion
• c. Faithfulness Demonstrated Since
• d. The Pastor As Elder?

• C. His Children

Children Are Believers – Trustworthy Debauchery – Abandoned, Riotous Insubordination – Unruly, Uncontrolled

Two Factors

• 1. Those Who Are In The Home
• 2. The Overall General Pattern

John MacArthur

“Successful spiritual leadership of their own families is their proving ground, as it were, for spiritual leadership in the church, because they are to be models

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Bryan Chapell

“We are not necessarily looking at the beliefs and actions of one child but at the character of the family as a whole…our assessment is to be based on observations of children’s conduct and convictions made

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time, not

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isolated statements or actions.”

• T. J. Addington

“Leadership is an awe- inspiring, weighty calling. In the church, leaders gain and influence followers by the integrity of their lives, the consistency between their words and actions, and their humility and service.”