1 Timothy 3:1-13

Choosing The Officers For The Local Church: Bishops, Deacons, and Deaconesses (1 Timothy 3:1-13 ).

No task was more serious for the young Timothy, (nor for the older Titus), than that of the selection of good officers to lead the Lord’s army forwards. We come now, therefore to what the qualifications are for ‘bishops’ (overseers and teachers of the local church), and ‘deacons’ and deaconesses (servants of the church and spiritual assistants to the overseers). Only men could be bishops, but both men and women could seemingly be deacons.