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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: 1 Timothy – Chapter 3
Description: In this chapter, Paul taught Timothy how to qualify men to be Overseers/Elders to the church. He is to be a godly man of respect who manages his own home well, because if he can not do that, he would not be able to manage God's family well. S. M. Baugh explained this position "as a guardian' of the welfare of the Christian churches under his care." The next section deals with deacons, and depending upon your interpretation, deaconesses. They are also to be people of respect, temperate and trustworthy. Paul wrote this so, "you will know how...