监督与执事的资格

“人若渴望做教会的监督,他是在爱慕尊贵的工作。”这句话千真万确。 做监督的人必须无可指责,只有一位妻子,为人节制自律、通情达理、受人尊敬、乐于接待客旅、善于教导, 不酗酒、不好斗、要温和、不争吵、不贪财,

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Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons

Here is a trustworthy saying:(A) Whoever aspires to be an overseer(B) desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach,(C) faithful to his wife,(D) temperate,(E) self-controlled, respectable, hospitable,(F) able to teach,(G) not given to drunkenness,(H) not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,(I) not a lover of money.(J)

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