教会におけるリーダーシップに関する17の聖句

The Bible describes church leaders as servants and shepherds who answer to God for the people in their care. Jesus defines greatness as service (Mark 10:43-45), the letters to Timothy and Titus set the qualifications for overseers (1 Timothy 3:2-3; Titus 1:7-8), and Peter charges elders to shepherd the flock without lording it over them (1 Peter 5:2-3). The titles overlap in the New Testament: in Acts 20 the same Ephesian leaders are called elders and overseers, the Greek episkopos…