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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
You brought this up before. Leadership, Elders and Teach are not equivalent terms.
Just because someone teaches does not make them a leader. These are two completely separate issues, because you confuse the two you think verses about one support the other. They don't.
The church is a hospital for those who have been broken and hurt by sin. Broken families are a very big result of this. The church needs to be a place where all those who come from broken and dysfunctional backgrounds can get healed, this involves having good examples of fathers and mothers. As a result it is far more important that an elder be the husband of one wife and one who is able to lead his own family well than it is that he can teach.
Teaching is not a requirement for an elder, but being a good example of a husband and father is.
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I thought it was a requirement:
1 Tim 3:2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,
able to teach,
The word is "must be... able to teach"