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| Dale Melchin Commentaries | Volume 1 Edition 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Well, ok, you?ve clarified that Melchin, now what do you mean?� I mean high rebellion.� For example, a pastor has a son who becomes a drunkard, is living with his girlfriend, and has been excommunicated from the church.� This disqualifies the man from leadership.� The reason for this simply goes back to the text of Scripture: 'He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household how will he take care of the church of God?)'� A covenantal understand of the family understands that there is always something that can be done or could have been done to prevent this.� I am not saying that the father has to answer for all of his son's sins.� But he will answer for what he didn?t do.� He may have been doing everything right as far as he knew.� But sometimes there are things left undone (parental laxity).� Or they did the right thing in the wrong way (legalism).� If this or other forms of high rebellion occur, the pastor should step down.� I am not the only one who says this.� I think Doug Wilson and John Macarthur would say the same things. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lousy Leadership II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 Timothy 3:1-7 'It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household how will he take care of the church of God?), and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.' Theses are God's Words. |
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| As for life experience I think we can find application of this passage by just using our good sense that God has given to us. 'Youngans' cannot overnight become 'elders'.� I can speak for myself on this issue and that is why I am not pursuing ministry right now.� Youngans simply do not have the wisdom that older men do.� I know of at least one exception and that was Charles Spurgeon.� However, this does not occur often.� Spurgeon is a great example to follow, but he is not the norm.� What it comes down to is that we simply must learn fidelity to the Scripture and we will all learn our place.� Young and old alike. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I'mgoing to get into some of the more practical ramifications of eldership.� I want to qualify this by saying that most of this is book knowledge that I have acquired, and things that I have observed.� I am not an expert on this matter.� Ultimately Scripture is final on all of these issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last week I stormed this issue by targeting mainly the Southern Baptists on their unfaithfulness to rightly teach God's Word.� I want to clarify that not all Southern Baptists are like this.� The Founders 'sect' of the Southern Baptists want to return to the first principles of the Southern Baptists, IE salvation comes by God's Sovereign grace and not by man's freewill.� (See the Founders.org).� SBC excluding the Founders are just a stark example of the folly that is going on in modern evangelicalism.� I also want to say that I am not doing this out of hatred, but out of sincere love and awe for God and for the edification of the saints.� Sometimes edification comes by hard words. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| What do the words unruly children mean?� First I will tell you what I don't mean.� I don't mean that the day-to-day acting up of children disqualifies elders from leadership.� Indeed it would be impossible for someone to be in eldership if the demands of the office were that tight.� I also don't mean that a man has to be sinless.� But it does mean that he has to be growing in grace.� He should be further along in the faith than the people he is planning to lead.� This applies both intellectually and practically.� He should be wise in the Scriptures and 'sinning less.' He should understand that living out the Christian life is continual repentance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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