1 Timothy 3:1-13 gives us the qualifications for the two offices that are Biblically endorsed and approved. This lesson is an overview of the passage with some attention to the lessons of the lesson obvious qualifications.

1. The Pastoral
Letters
Lesson Ten: Serious Business (Part 5)

2. I. A DOCTRINAL
PREMISE
B ible as our sole rule of faith
A utonomy of each local church
P riesthood of the believers
T wo offices: pastor and deacon
I ndividual soul liberty
S aved, baptized church membership
T wo ordinances: Baptism and Lord’s
Supper
S eparation of church and state

3. I. A DOCTRINAL
PREMISE
Baptists don’t believe a thing and then search
the Bible to prove that thing; we search the Bible
to find out what to believe.

4. II. A SPIRITUAL
QUALIFICATION• BISHOP (Pastor) DEACONS
• 1. Blameless Grave
• 2. One wife Not double tongued
• 3. Vigilant Not much wine
• 4. Sober Not greedy
• 5. Good behavior Pure conscience
• 6. Hospitable Proven
• 7. Teacher Blameless
• 8. No wine WIVES grave
• 9. No striker WIVES Not slanderers
• 10. Not greedy WIVES Sober
• 11. Patient WIVES Faithful
• 12. Not brawler One wife
• 13. Not covetous Ruling their children
• 14. Ruling well his house
• 15. Not a novice
• 16. Good report without

5. III. A FEW KEY
WORDS
A. Blameless/good report
Blameless means to meet the
qualifications of this passage and to
have nothing that tramples the name
of Christ under foot?

6. III. A FEW KEY
WORDS
B. Mature/proven
•Not of novice.
•An issue of proving.

7. III. A FEW KEY
WORDS
C. One wife
There were only two possible ways to
interpret this:
•Not divorced and remarried
•Not widowed and remarried