{"id":2070,"date":"2018-09-18T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2018-10-12T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:23:35","slug":"what-constitutes-a-new-testament-church-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"What Constitutes a New Testament Church? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2.\u00a0 Biblical Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>A bishop (overseer) then must be blameless (nothing to be laid hold of), the husband of one wife (a one woman man), vigilant (watchful), sober (self-controlled), of good behaviour (orderly), given to hospitality (loving strangers), apt to teach (skilled in teaching);\u00a0Not given to wine (clear minded), no striker (peaceable), not greedy of filthy lucre (eager for base gain); but patient (gentle), not a brawler (contentious), not covetous (a lover of money);<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil (the accuser of the brethren).\u00a0\u00a0Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. I Timothy 3:2-7<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Definitions are from <em>Vine\u2019s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words,<\/em> copyright 1984, 1996, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, TN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2.\u00a0 Biblical Leadership A bishop (overseer) then must be blameless (nothing to be laid hold of), the husband of one wife (a one woman man), vigilant (watchful), sober (self-controlled), of good behaviour (orderly), given to hospitality (loving strangers), apt to teach (skilled in teaching);\u00a0Not given to wine (clear minded), no striker (peaceable), not greedy of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2070\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Constitutes a New Testament Church? Part II<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}