Pick-a-phrase...

1 Timothy 3

So, I actually have some more frustrations with how this passage is generally applied in our church. We say that 1 Timothy 3 contains the qualifications for an elder and a deacon but we don't apply all the qualifications equally. We insist on certain ones but overlook others (are all our elders hospitable? are all our elders able to teach? do all their children obey them with proper respect? do all of them have wives that are not gossips or malicious talkers?).
My goal is to look for Jesus in each section of Scripture that I read. I confess that he is difficult to find in this passage. I think the principle of the passage is that there should be order and decency in the church which would reflect that there was a sense of decency and possibly calmness about Jesus - he was not given to chaos (although the driving out the money changers would have been a bit frightening!).