The Gifts Necessary for the Office of Elder (2)

Of the several passages which speak to this subject, I Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9 are the most comprehensive. These passages present the following qualifying gifts: blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to or lover of hospitality, apt to teach ("able to exhort and convince the gainsayers," Tit. 1:9), not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, patient, not a brawler ("not given to riot," Tit. 1:6), not covetous, rules his house well, not...