1 Timothy 3 (March 12)

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o man, so tired, even though i had like 12 hours of sleep last night. Anyways.....

In this chapter, God talks about overseers and deacons. v12. A deacon must be the husband of the one wife and must manage his children and his household well. As leaders, were are deacons in are ministry, correct. It is are duty to help out and support are ministry, such as organizing retreats, events, sunday services, etc. Just like how pastor moses would preach for us all, and the praise team playing the music so the church can have worship. Every individual has different gifts, gifts from God. So what i am trying to say here is that, as leaders, we all have duties for this ministry and for our one God. There are times when we fall apart and lose controll, but it doesnt mean we should give up. So lets step up and become deacons. Thats pretty much it.

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1 Timothy 3
Right at the beginning of the chapter theres a message being sent out. It is that If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Throughout life, you don't come to do a duty, you are born to do a duty for the Saviour, just like this verse is saying that if you set out to be a follower of Jesus Christ, then you desire to do whatever he asks and you are willing to do anything. Also just like Joe said, we are the leaders of our ministry, desiring a certain task for others to get to know Jesus and to come to him. Our task is to be organizing retreats and etc for those certain people in our ministry to become closer and closer to God.

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Again, the topic for today's devotion has already been laid out. Overseers and Deacons. So what, is what someone would think at first; it took me some time, actually, to maybe understand the point.

It relates partially to the Spiderman theme that I believe Esther mentioned. Really, in life, we're given so many responsibilities, but let's focus on the church.

We come to church to definitely serve God. Well, "serving" God can take place in many forms, as far as I can see. Surely, we come to learn something each week that might or might not be incredible. But a lot of the time, as leaders - as deacons or overseers, we should act as proper role models in addition to the responsibilities that we're encouraged to do.

There are so many conditions, now that I see, in order to be a deacon or an overseer. I feel there are so many requirements because at the time where Paul was writing his letters, the holy church was just so corrupted. There needed to be proper reformation within the Christian body, and the only way to do so was to find dedicated, strong, committed, and especially leaders meeting the requirements.

It might seem like it's going against the fact that Christianity gives choice. My feelings suggest it doesn't. Note that I'm not always correct, and that everyone has their respective opinions. I just suggest it still embraces democracy. You don't HAVE to follow these requirements, but as verse five says, if you can't even manage your family, how can you even take care of God's church? There's no complete logic to doing so; I mean, why lead and make a false impression of GOD's community with no purpose? Is it not really to degrade God's name? If one were to become leaders - deacons - preachers of the law, then reformation in oneself would be required. Otherwise, it embraces the concept of hypocrisy! God dislikes hypocrisy, now that I remember Andy doing a devotion on it during the summertime...

I think that we overall need to have the right MINDSET and state of mind, especially emotionally, so that we can lead peacefully - properly.

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1 Timothy 3
Basically I what I got from this chapter
is what a deacon, and his supporter and wife must
be in order to serve God in their specific positions.

Though we may not want to be an overseer or wife of one,
we can learn how to be an important servant in God's church.

Be temperate, self- controlled, respectable, hospitable and gentle.
Be trustworthy.

Remember these and practice them, for they are characteristics that allow many to follow
a leader, and of course enable the leader to do great things in God's name.

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