What exactly are these leadership qualities specified here (Titus 1:7-8)?
7 " ... be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined." Can you give me a word study here?
Titus 1:5 - 16
NLT - 5 I left you on the island of Crete so you could complete our work there and appoint elders in each town as I instructed you. 6 An elder must live a blameless life. He must be faithful to his wife, and his children must be believers who don’t have a reputation for being wild or rebellious.
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Tim Maas
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I would say that the positive qualities enumerated in the cited passage would be prerequisites for a leader in the church because, to be effective, such a leader must be capable both of bringing (and keeping) people together as a group, and also serving as an example for them to follow, in order to maximize the whole group's effectiveness in acting as a body, rather than individually. By contrast, the negative characteristics or attributes cited in the passage would all be counterproductive to that objective, from the standpoint of relationships between individuals; the relationship between the leader and the group as a whole; and the group's consequent effectiveness when acting as a body. I found a very effective breakdown of each of the qualities under the Study Bible exposition of them at the biblehub website (https://biblehub.com/titus/1-7.htm).
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