Qualities of Highly Effective Ministers

This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the

position of a [a]bishop, he desires a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband

of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good

behaviour, hospitable, able to teach; 3 not

[b]given to wine, not violent, [c]not greedy for

money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not

[d]covetous; 4 one who rules his own house well,

having his children in submission with all

reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to

rule his own house, how will he take care of the

church of God?); 6, not a [e]novice, lest being

puffed up with pride he fall into the same

condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover, he must

have a good testimony among those who are

outside, lest he falls into reproach and the snare of the devil.