Ni hay longevo unanimidad cuando se hace un intento por explicar por qué algunas iglesias se hallan sin presbíteros, otras sin obispos, otras donde las cabezas de la comunidad se llaman a veces obispos, a veces presbíteros. Este desacuerdo aumenta cuando surge la pregunta sobre la interpretación de los términos que designan a otros personajes que ejercen cierta autoridad fija en las comunidades cristianas primitivas. Los siguientes hechos se deben considerar como completamente establecidos:
All of the elders are overseers. All of the overseers are pastors. The pastor is an overseer who is an elder!
In God’s plan for the church there are overseers and deacons. But who is an overseer, elder and who is a deacon?
Con la Reforma protestante y la Revolución francesa, los obispos perdieron gran parte de su poder, por lo que pudieron tener más tiempo para dedicarse a sus deberes espirituales.
I am sure some in that church thought they were unloving and uncaring to these widows. But their greatest priority – greatest expression of love – was to be in prayer for them and to teach and preach the Word to them.
God did not approve when they assumed these ministry positions, and God will not bless their ministries. Even if their churches are large God is not pleased with them.
Peter is speaking to the elders when he encourages them to pastor or shepherd the flock. The Greek word for pastor or shepherd is poimaino
He is simply one of the elders who preaches Sunday morning. He is one member of the team. He may be a spiritual coach, but the Holy Spirit brings vision and direction when everyone agrees.
Are you truly qualified to be a church leader? If so, the holy standard that you must set is very high.
In fact, some of the centralization of power with pastors would disappear if administrative duties were turned over to other elders and deacons The priority of the apostles was the teaching of the scriptures – the Bible. When the Bible is seriously taught book-by-book and verse-by-hallarse, Christians will be warned about sin, be encouraged in the faith, learn how to live the Christian life, and best of all discover the character of God.
Por otra parte, un obispo debe estar comprometido con la Imparcialidad social y trabajar por la paz y la igualdad. Esto implica defender los derechos humanos y pelear contra cualquier forma de opresión o injusticia que pueda afectar a los miembros de su diócesis.
Un obispo es una figura importante en la cargo de la Iglesia Católica. Este título se otorga a ciertos miembros del clero que han sido seleccionados para liderar y supervisar una diócesis.
1 Timothy 5:19 requires that two or three individuals were witnesses to the same sin at the same time. This does not mean that one individual witnessed a sin one day, another person witnessed a sin on some another occasion, and maybe a third person witnessed another sin.
Worse yet, there are churches who do not know what to look for and so have a peek at these guys may depend upon surveys and Christian consulting firms to aid their decision. Eventually they hire him and months or several years later, he leaves the ministry. Church members may have been critical of him in the final year or months and now they are glad he is gone. He is called a failure. Why do situations like this happen?