19. 請問設立長老或監督的條件有那些? 在家庭方面(1:6) :
1. 無可指責a good record, a man of virtue ( Basic English Version)
2. 只作一個婦人的丈夫husband of one wife,
3. 兒女也是信主的whose children are of the faith,
4. 沒有人告他們是放蕩不服約束的children of whom it may not be said that
they are given to loose living or are uncontrolled.
反思: 對於一個領袖而言,為什麼這些條件這麼重要?
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20. 在個性及品德方面(1:7-8)
1. 不任性,不暴躁,不因酒滋事,不打人not pushing himself forward, not
quickly moved to wrath or blows
2. 不貪無義之財not desiring profit for himself;
3. 樂意接待遠人opening his house freely to guests;
4. 好善,莊重,公平,聖潔自持 But a lover of what is good, serious-
minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;
反思: 對於一個領袖而言,為什麼這些條件這麼重要?
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21. 在真理方面(1:9)
1. 堅守所教真實的道理,能將純正的教訓勸化人
Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to
give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the
doubters. ( Basic English Version)
反思: 對於一個領袖而言,為什麼這些條件這麼重要?
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