Exposition of I Timothy 3:1-7 (2)

That the office is very important is directly stated by Paul in I Timothy 3:1, where we read: "Faithful is the saying, If a man seek the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work." Just how "good," honorable and useful this work is becomes the more evident from what Paul writes in the latter part of this chapter, in the verses 14 through 16. Paul reminds Timothy that he writes "these things" to him that he may know "how men (or thou) ought to conduct themselves (thyself) in the house of God,...