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What kind of leader do you believe Paul is indicating for us with the phrase "husband of one wife"? As I read these verses I believe Paul is saying exactly what he means and that includes the word husband as a qualification. I think what happens too often today is that because we maybe don't understand the reasons why the Bible says certain things and it maybe doesn't fit with our culture, then we try to make the bible fit our culture instead of trying to get our culture to reflect the bible. I realize that there are things in the bible that were said that were only applicable to the culture of the day but I really feel that this isn't one of them. The bible is very consistent on this point. Why is a leader's family an important indicator of leadership potential or problems? Good leaders are able to lead wherever they are whether in public or private. The family is definitely a reflection of someones leadership abilities. Sure kids are going to stray and mess up but it how the father responds to the mess ups that decides whether he is a good leader. It directly applies to the family of God. Even under a great leader there are members who are going to stray but it is how the leader responds to the members that will decide how great of a leader he is.

What were some of the results of false doctrine in the church at Ephesus? How does doctrinal controversy hurt the spirit of a church? How does it prevent growth? How does it keep the church from its mission? False doctrine seems like it really messes everything up. What I see the most is that it causes a major division in a church and it can almost be like half of the church versus the other half. The passage talks about meaningless talk and that these controversies are turning people away from Gods work. My question is where do you draw the line? In our church right now there is a controversial issue that has us divided. It's not a huge issue yet but at what point do you stop having the debate in order to keep the focus on God and not on meaningless talk? I think the spirit of the church is very crippled when there is doctrinal controversies and that is why Satan loves getting the controversial ball rolling. I think that the last two questions are really one in the same. I believe that the overall mission of the church is to grow the kingdom and when we are doing that correctly our church will grow. These types of "meaningless" talk only take our focus off of what God truly calls us to be doing. Satan likes to use these things almost like a slight of hand. He gets us to focus our attention on these little things and while our attention is there he is actually leading us away from what God wants from us.