1. How does one become a pastor or an elder?

2. What does it mean to be ‘above reproach’? Is anyone without serious sin?

3. Look at each of the qualifications in this passage. Is this meant to be a generalization where a person is rated on a continuum or are these specific qualities, each a disqualifier?

4. What is the duty of the congregation regarding selecting elders? How is this done? When should a man be rejected as an elder?

5. What is Satan’s strategy in attacking the leaders of the church? How should we pray for them? Why does the Holy Spirit set the bar so high for elders? How does each of these items relate to each of us?