• Acts 6:1-7 - Men chosen for special service in the church.
  • Qualifications of elders:
    • Desire
    • Blameless
    • The husband of one wife
    • Vigilant
    • Sober
    • Of good behavior
    • Given to hospitality
    • Apt to teach
    • Not given to wine
    • No striker
    • Not greedy of filthy lucre
    • Patient
    • Not a brawler
    • Not covetous
    • One that rules his own house well
    • Having his children in subjection with all gravity
    • Not a novice
    • Havea good report of them which are without
    • Not selfwilled
    • Not soon angry
    • …