Also, would a serious public or habitual sin disqualify a pastor from ever serving in the future?
1 Timothy 3:2 - 7
NKJV - 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach. 3 Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous.
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