Part 7 | Pastors and People

From 1 Thessalonians 5

New Testament Terms for Church Leaders:

“Poimen” –

“Episkopos” –

“Presbyteros” –

📖 1 Timothy 3:2–7 ESV Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? 6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

What do Church Leaders do?

1. Leaders in the church ( ) among the people.

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you

📖 1 Thessalonians 2:9  ESV For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

📖 1 Thessalonians 3:2  ESV and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith

📖 1 Timothy 4:10   ESV For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.

2. Leaders in the church of people.

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord

📖 Galatians 1:1 ESV Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

3. Leaders and the people.

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you

📖 Proverbs 14:12 ESV There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

📖 Proverbs 1:7 ESV The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge…

📖 Proverbs 1:7 ESV The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;…. fools despise wisdom and instruction.

4. The people spiritual leaders.

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ESV respect those who labor among you

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV  and to esteem them very highly 

5. The people their spiritual leaders.

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work.

6. The people their spiritual leaders and it results in .

📖 1 Thessalonians 5:13 ESV Be at peace among yourselves.

📖 Hebrews 13:17 ESV Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

📖 1 Corinthians 16:2 ESV On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.