Dale Partridge - Real Christianity #059： Is Your Pastor Biblically Qualified？

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00:00:02.820 Is your pastor biblically qualified?

00:00:05.740 I think an important conversation for the church today is the pastor of the church that you're at biblically qualified.

00:00:12.560 We've actually done a couple episodes on this topic or around this topic.

00:00:16.640 We did an episode titled The Seven Criteria of a Biblical Church.

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00:00:28.740 and, again, just talking about the posture and character of a pastor.

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00:01:47.500 So diving into the conversation, I think that many, if not most Christians, have been kind of placed themselves under a shepherd or a pastor without really evaluating if they meet the Bible's criteria for ministry or for pastoring.

00:02:03.260 I think it's a pretty common thing.

00:02:04.860 And I think it's likely because we confuse spiritual giftedness with spiritual qualification.

00:02:10.980 I want to say that again because I want you to catch that.

00:02:12.860 I think we really look at spiritual giftedness instead of spiritual qualification.

00:02:18.640 And this is where I think a lot of people kind of get tripped up or deceived in this.

00:02:22.560 And our hope for this episode is really that you would have the tools, the understanding, and the resources

00:02:27.140 to assess if you're being shepherded by someone who really meets the criteria,

00:02:32.680 the Bible's criteria for what a shepherd really is.

00:02:35.140 yeah um speaking on that just recently um a friend of ours uh told us a story about one of

00:02:43.680 their friends who is um a current who was currently an unemployed worship pastor um and they were

00:02:51.120 looking for a job at a church and he recently had an interview with the pastor and was um offered

00:02:58.100 the job but uh he wasn't sure if he should take the job and so he called our friend and said so

00:03:06.360 i got the worship leader position but i want your thoughts on a few things and he mentioned that the

00:03:12.300 pastor is single childless and a woman and he was asking our friend if he thought it was okay for

00:03:21.720 him to accept this position yeah and so uh we got two things to deal with here one the first is the

00:03:28.900 fact that a worship leader someone that's a leader in the church yeah and if you listen to our podcast

00:03:34.860 on worship music yes that last week or something like maybe a couple weeks ago we touch on this a

00:03:39.820 lot if you're a worship leader if you're you are actually shepherding in a position of shepherding

00:03:45.040 yeah you're in a position of leadership um now the fact that a worship leader is asking this

00:03:49.120 question is really bad enough. So that's its own issue. But there's also really like a sad

00:03:54.760 sincerity about this question. I really think that this poor guy, he loves Jesus and has really no

00:04:03.880 idea what the Bible says about what qualifies or disqualifies a person from being a pastor.

00:04:09.800 And unfortunately, I think that this is kind of a universal ignorance of the church. I think this

00:04:13.880 is a pretty common, uh, lack of knowledge. And I say this because this is really a part of our

00:04:19.600 story too. Um, several years ago, you know, we, we didn't know what to look for. And I'm going to

00:04:25.460 ask Veronica, you know, when you first became a Christian, um, and you first started going to

00:04:29.540 church, what was it that you were looking for in a pastor? I did, did you even know what to look

00:04:34.240 for in a pastor? What was your experience there? No, I think I, when I gave my life to the Lord

00:04:39.920 and i became a believer um and wanted to follow christ and everything that i did said and thought

00:04:45.640 um i just kind of took their word for it if you're on the pulpit then i'm would just like i never

00:04:53.460 even thought like oh there's qualifications i just assumed that they were and then as i uh developed

00:04:59.520 in maturity and reading the word more and being around other um stronger believers i would hear

00:05:07.740 you know, like they went to so-and-so seminary and things like that. So then I was like, oh,

00:05:12.140 okay, they, they must have to go to seminary. It's like any other job, right? You go and you

00:05:16.540 get a degree. Yeah. And then there were also incredibly gifted. I know when I was saved,

00:05:23.140 I was, I personally was saved due to a very, um, gifted speaker and, um, I felt super convicted

00:05:32.260 of my sin and that's when i gave my life to the lord um but yeah it was just maybe maybe i thought

00:05:39.200 like oh maybe they just they have to be gifted they have to be talented in that area to be able

00:05:43.600 to teach yeah yeah so you're saying that really there's i think common things that what we think

00:05:48.880 is qualifications are is oh they they have their mdiv from this seminary right their masters in

00:05:54.020 divinity their seminary graduate there yeah i didn't even know what those like words words meant

00:05:58.740 they went to bible college right or i remember someone was like oh he went to

00:06:02.840 dallas theological seminary and i was like oh okay cool just thought it was like any other

00:06:07.800 college yeah did i know it was like one of the best ones yeah and so you have this this idea

00:06:13.320 of seminaries and then you have um the idea of oh they're really gifted just because they can

00:06:19.560 teach means that they should teach um and then i think the most common thing is well you just

00:06:26.780 believe because the you're new to the church and you don't know much about the bible and you assume

00:06:33.580 that the people that are running the church know a lot about the bible therefore this is a trustworthy

00:06:38.940 person or a qualified person in this position to be guiding us and leading us yeah which now you're 0.75

00:06:46.060 having all types of pastors of any type of background today pastors that are uh homosexual

00:06:53.440 pastors you're having issues we're having things with uh women pastors you're having things with 0.52

00:06:58.300 pastors who are not married we have pastors that are single or uh no no children pastors with with

00:07:04.900 no training pastors um that are still walking in sin there there are so many different issues that

00:07:12.040 are going on today in terms of pastoring um that it's uh yeah it's an issue really sad it is an

00:07:18.820 it is an issue yeah um so an old theologian once said a really important quote i want to share it

00:07:25.280 today it says the man first builds the institution but then the institution begins to to build the

00:07:32.640 man and again i think it's what happened is that kind of the church we built this idea of the

00:07:37.640 church and the institution and the seminary and all the things and then all of a sudden now we're

00:07:41.340 learning a lot from the institution instead of from the bible and so i think christians are so 0.56

00:07:45.960 biblically illiterate that they actually go to church and they just believe everything that 0.67

00:07:48.960 their church does is somewhere in the scriptures. And this is, you know, really all about deception. 0.95

00:07:55.320 And the thing about deception and being misled is that when you're being deceived and you're

00:07:59.860 being misled, you don't know that you're being deceived or being misled. And the only way that

00:08:04.780 you can actually determine if you're living in a lie or living in a false experience is by going

00:08:10.720 back to the scriptures, going back to the Bible and measuring, uh, your experience against what

00:08:16.660 God says your experience should be. Um, and now again, there shouldn't be any doubt in the church

00:08:23.280 when we're measuring, you know, a pastor against scripture, because, uh, the Bible is super clear

00:08:30.080 and it lays it out exactly what the qualifications of a biblically qualified pastor are. They do

00:08:36.320 that. The Bible does that in 1 Timothy chapter 3 and Titus 1. It's also, you know, throughout the

00:08:45.060 scriptures, there's stuff in Acts, there's stuff in Peter. There's a variety of things even in the

00:08:49.760 Gospels and understanding what a shepherd is to do. And we're going to look at those qualifications

00:08:54.100 in a minute. But there is definitely no reason to not know because they are so clear in the

00:08:59.640 scriptures, as you guys will see shortly. Yeah, something that I found really interesting is that

00:09:04.580 the actual word pastor is only mentioned one time in the entire bible i know such a weird

00:09:10.880 yeah and it's basically a word that describes uh the position and the position which dale will

00:09:17.520 break down is shepherd um but for the word pastor being mentioned so few times in scripture

00:09:23.640 it's amazing how many titles we have built upon just that name yeah um yeah so there we've got

00:09:29.820 the worship pastor, as we've mentioned, the youth pastor, the children's pastor, the community

00:09:34.720 pastor, the singles pastor, the marriage pastor, the parking lot pastor, you know, kind of just

00:09:41.640 slap any title with the word pastor following and it's now a thing. And it's, yeah, it's almost

00:09:48.860 become like a hired job instead of being a divinely appointed call. Yeah, I think that's a really

00:09:55.680 important distinction that you're making here um about it because we've totally done that we've

00:10:00.600 just adopted all these titles and just kind of slapped them on oh yeah here you take up this

00:10:03.800 position if you if you meet the the qualifications of being an employed person you can come and be

00:10:09.440 this pastor um you know the role that we have called pastor the bible actually calls elder or

00:10:15.920 overseer that's that's what we see in scripture uh we see that word way more obviously than the

00:10:22.120 word pastor the word pastor comes up once elder and bishop or overseer shepherd these words are

00:10:27.880 more frequently used basically the the word because the word pastor which again just means

00:10:34.860 shepherd is simply a description of what the elder does you cannot be a pastor without being an elder

00:10:41.140 and i'm going to say that one more time because i want you to catch this okay because the word pastor

00:10:46.020 is simply a description of what the elder does,

00:10:50.940 you cannot be a pastor without being an elder.

00:10:53.680 And you can't be an elder without being a pastor.

00:10:56.420 Okay, you know, the idea of a pastor who is not an elder

00:11:00.200 is not a biblical idea.

00:11:02.040 It's kind of like an impossible thing to happen, okay?

00:11:05.880 You can have a pastoral gifting

00:11:08.100 that you're trying to mature into a pastoral office eventually

00:11:12.720 while not being an elder.

00:11:14.300 Meaning that, like, say you're a young man and you go, man, this guy's got a pastor's heart.

00:11:19.360 He's trying to meet the qualifications of becoming a pastor at some point.

00:11:23.720 He could be nurturing and growing that pastoral gifting.

00:11:26.940 He's still not a pastor.

00:11:29.000 He's still not in the pastor's office.

00:11:30.960 But if you're going to wear the title of pastor and you're actually going to shepherd a flock of God's people,

00:11:37.060 then you better meet the qualifications for pastor, for shepherd, for overseer that are found in the Bible.

00:11:42.880 And that's what we're going to talk about now.

00:11:45.080 So Veronica is going to read first Timothy chapter three,

00:11:48.560 verse one through seven.

00:11:49.600 This is one of the spots in scripture that gives very clear instructions.

00:11:56.480 Yeah.

00:11:56.660 Descriptions descriptions of what a elder is.

00:12:00.460 Okay. 1.00

00:12:01.560 This is a faithful saying.

00:12:02.800 If a man desires the position of an overseer,

00:12:05.200 he desires a good work and overseer then must be blameless.

00:12:08.860 The husband of one wife, temperate,

00:12:10.920 sober-minded of good behavior hospitable able to teach not given to wine not violent not greedy

00:12:17.520 for money but gentle not quarrelsome not covetous one who rules his own house well having his

00:12:24.400 children in submission with all reverence for if a man does not know how to rule his own house

00:12:29.200 how will he take care of the church of god not a novice less being puffed up with pride he fall

00:12:35.400 into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover, he must have a good testimony among those who are

00:12:42.700 outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. And one thing I want to talk about

00:12:50.420 here is if this is true for the leaders of the church, then it's definitely true for each and

00:12:57.060 every one of us. And so it's really easy to kind of isolate these qualifications or these character

00:13:03.380 traits into their own kind of category as if like only those people need to be that way um but god

00:13:09.080 doesn't have double standards that's not that's not the case he doesn't say to the elders hey you

00:13:14.160 guys be super holy and righteous everybody else just has to be holy and righteous no these are

00:13:19.800 the expectations uh for god's people um from the top down in terms of maturity and uh you know

00:13:28.740 Sure, for the church quality, these are things that everybody should desire, and they are things that are required of the elders and also the deacons, which we're not talking about today.

00:13:39.060 But I just want to point that out.

00:13:40.540 I think it's an important conversation to have is that these aren't just for them.

00:13:44.220 They're also for you.

00:13:45.420 These are characteristics for you as well.

00:13:47.100 So I want to read you guys these qualifications briefly.

00:13:50.800 We're going to just fly through them here.

00:13:53.260 And as we're doing this, there's 17 of them.

00:13:56.260 and i want you to evaluate your pastor against these biblical qualifications and if he meets

00:14:02.140 them praise god you're at a blessed uh church and and that's a great thing um we had a pastor

00:14:08.960 who met these qualifications for several years we are now in a shepherd's role meaning that

00:14:14.620 we look at these qualifications regularly to make sure that we are staying within these

00:14:20.720 qualifications um and so uh let's start with the first qualification i'm gonna go just really quick

00:14:26.980 on that note not just us we look at them but our the people on our fellowship as well look at them

00:14:32.000 we're not the ones making the call yeah we don't that we're qualified yeah we don't self-qualify

00:14:37.380 we our congregation is the one who evaluates just like we're asking you to do evaluate if we are in

00:14:44.920 that office because they can see these things be true of our life just want to bring clarity to

00:14:49.780 that yeah so uh number one qualification is the pastor is a man the overseer is a male office

00:15:00.120 and uh it's not it's not of a woman it's not a woman's office i didn't write it so you don't get

00:15:06.740 to get mad at me um but that is what the scriptures teach so i'm just going to leave it at that but it

00:15:12.260 is a position for men. Second point is, he says, they're blameless. Now, I want to talk about that

00:15:20.780 for a second. Blameless doesn't mean faultless. It doesn't mean that they haven't fallen, that

00:15:25.300 they don't make mistakes, that they don't have error. But the difference is that they don't

00:15:32.720 have a reputation of evil or a pattern of evil or a pattern of habitual sin. They're not known

00:15:40.700 for those things they're they're above reproach i think that they they're even proactive in

00:15:45.760 protecting themselves in those areas yes they're they're really trying to walk a holy and righteous

00:15:51.860 life because they are the example for the flock as they follow christ um husband of one wife

00:15:57.720 the elder is a one woman man and i know you might be thinking in terms of polygamy uh you know this

00:16:05.580 could have, this is definitely an issue of the time. How many wives does Christ have? Well,

00:16:10.980 he only has one and it's the church. And so we are to model that. And does this disqualify the man

00:16:18.280 who has been divorced? Some believe so. I don't have an opinion on that because the Bible doesn't

00:16:26.140 specifically speak to that, but it does say that you're the husband of one wife. And I think that's 0.80

00:16:31.400 a really important distinction. Moving on to number four, temperate. It means that you're not

00:16:37.120 an angry person. Number five, sober-minded. It means that you're a man who's centered on biblical

00:16:45.320 truth. You're firm. You're steady. You're not easily swayed. You really believe what you believe,

00:16:54.040 and you're not being um obsessed with some of these kind of fluke theological ideas or

00:17:02.840 you know i i've heard all the the i always write references the flat earth folks in the church i'm

00:17:07.860 like dude i don't care if the earth's flat jesus is here he came he died uh he rose again he sat

00:17:12.440 in the right hand of the father i don't care if the earth's flat or round or square um i'm not

00:17:16.900 going it doesn't matter um and and so you kind of get set aside with all these like weird things

00:17:24.500 you're not sober minded when those kind of things happen just focus on the scriptures the facts the

00:17:29.620 call um good behavior that's pretty self-explanatory it's number six number seven is hospitable i'm

00:17:37.060 gonna say that they prefer company like they're they love people and they want to spend time with

00:17:43.420 people and what's the definition of hospitality showing others their worth showing their value

00:17:49.600 yeah they're worth yeah that was good showing others their worth about you're hospitable you

00:17:54.540 like showing people their value number eight is able to teach they have the gift of teaching i

00:18:01.820 would say to an extent because in titus it talks about the elder's task is to correct and exhort

00:18:11.360 and rebuke those who contradict the Word of God.

00:18:15.400 So I'm talking, you've got to not just be like,

00:18:17.240 I have a teaching and gifting.

00:18:18.160 You've got to be trained, studied, prepared,

00:18:21.040 and capable of exhorting, correcting,

00:18:24.380 and rebuking those who contradict the Word of God.

00:18:26.900 That extensiveness of teaching

00:18:29.160 is what I think it's talking about.

00:18:31.640 Number nine, not given to wine.

00:18:34.580 And I would say,

00:18:37.240 does this mean that you can't drink at all?

00:18:38.660 I think it means you're definitely not a drunkard

00:18:41.900 I think that's what the passage is translated in some other versions too

00:18:44.960 but I would say you're not drinking that often

00:18:47.140 it's not something that you do regularly

00:18:49.540 do you have a glass of wine on your anniversary with your wife

00:18:52.820 sure but I don't think that

00:18:56.040 that is what it's talking about

00:18:58.000 you're not given to wine, you're not desiring for it

00:19:01.040 not violent

00:19:03.000 self-explanatory

00:19:05.420 number 11, not greedy for money

00:19:09.220 And so with the Instagram account, Preachers and Sneakers, which we talk about in that other episode, where you have these pastors wearing $4,000 jackets and $2,000 pairs of shoes, this should absolutely raise some red flags in your heart and go, whoa, that doesn't line up right.

00:19:29.540 That doesn't look like Jesus.

00:19:31.560 You know, follow me as I follow Jesus in my $2,000 pair of shoes.

00:19:35.880 Like that just doesn't sound right.

00:19:37.580 And so they're not serving the church for monetary gain or being immodest with their wealth.

00:19:46.320 Number 12, gentle.

00:19:47.960 This doesn't mean they're soft.

00:19:49.760 It means that they're compassionate, they're patient, they're caring.

00:19:55.740 Number 13, not quarrelsome.

00:20:00.000 I like a friend of mine just interpreted this, I think, in a really helpful way.

00:20:04.660 He said, they don't argue.

00:20:05.840 they don't ever let discussions turn into arguments they refuse to argue they refuse

00:20:11.640 they just don't do it because an argument is striving like in the flesh like i'm gonna win

00:20:16.660 this thing and it's not about the holy spirit doing the work and so they're not arguing they're

00:20:22.300 not quarrelsome covetous uh is number 14 he's content with where the lord has him you don't

00:20:28.620 see someone that's constantly on the gain you know and and i know we can there's nothing wrong

00:20:35.760 with achieving and growing and moving forward, but just this constant need to perform and looking

00:20:41.740 at other people's things and wanting other people's lives. So I'll leave it at that. Number

00:20:47.420 15, rules his own household well. And so I would say this is a household, isn't just your wife and

00:20:57.720 children. I believe it's your property. I believe it's your finances. Is everything in order there

00:21:02.920 so that you can be the example to your flock in all things,

00:21:06.180 not just in family, but whatever the Lord has given you.

00:21:09.460 If it's a small apartment, that thing is taken care of.

00:21:12.580 It's clean.

00:21:13.740 You care for the things that the Lord has entrusted to you.

00:21:17.980 I would say that also extends to like,

00:21:19.960 are you wallowing in deep in debt?

00:21:22.900 You know, have you been able to be trusted with God's money?

00:21:26.820 So that's another element.

00:21:28.140 I could have extended that a little beyond what the text says,

00:21:31.760 but that's my take.

00:21:32.920 Number 16, they have children and their children are obedient and in submission to this elder because if you can't even run your own household and have your own children into submission to you, how can you run the house of God?

00:21:48.500 That's what it says in the passage. And I think that this is interesting because it clarifies that these children need to be old enough.

00:21:55.760 one is not child and then it's children and and they need to be old enough in which you can

00:22:01.540 determine wow that that's that child is in submission to their father and i'd say that

00:22:06.380 happens somewhere between four and up you can start to see really if a child is in submission

00:22:12.740 and obviously really see it at 10 12 13 14 um this doesn't mean perfect children this means

00:22:21.540 obedient children. And so I want to, because, you know, pastor's got a lot going on and it's

00:22:27.300 really easy to be critical of the pastor. So obedient, loving, ordered children, not perfect

00:22:34.620 children. And number 17 is not a novice. Man, you shouldn't be new to the faith and walking in a

00:22:41.240 leadership position. You shouldn't be new to the Bible's theology and walking in a leadership

00:22:45.760 position. You need to be able to understand, again, the word well enough that you can defend it

00:22:51.040 that you can present it and understand the mechanics of the gospel quite well

00:22:56.080 and explain it to other people that you could bring them along the journey.

00:22:59.800 So those are the 17 requirements.

00:23:01.760 And I want you to, again, think, does my pastor meet those qualifications?

00:23:05.260 That's a really important and valid question.

00:23:08.640 Yeah, so after going through those 17 qualifications,

00:23:11.780 now let's just say you hear them and you say,

00:23:14.620 well, you know, I think my pastor meets these qualifications.

00:23:17.440 Great.

00:23:17.700 But another point that I did want to make that really shifted in my journey was recognizing the difference between a biblical pastor who feeds and guides and protects, protects the church and the evangelist who simply teaches basic gospel messages each week in hopes to convert people to Christ.

00:23:38.780 Yeah. So you got like point A is you have this person is the pastor, the shepherd.

00:23:43.500 Yeah. He's caring for his flock.

00:23:45.260 and then point b is this evangelist they're they're biblically important roles both oh absolutely

00:23:50.860 but they're different yeah so just because your pastor might meet the qualifications of an elder

00:23:55.680 it still doesn't necessarily mean that they are truly pastoring um many churches today are led

00:24:03.120 by evangelists um who are who tend to be just more focused on the visitors than they are to

00:24:09.680 the committed people in their flock and that's kind of how the church that you were saved in

00:24:14.440 right? I mean, it was a visitor-centric church, right? And again, there's nothing wrong with that

00:24:20.020 and intrinsically wrong with that. But I think it's a really important point because, you know,

00:24:24.780 sure, every pastor needs to be concerned with the gospel. We need to be making sure that we

00:24:28.540 present the gospel. I would say you should be able to present the gospel in every sermon that you

00:24:31.980 preach. But again, you know, the gathering of the church and the evangelistic outreach of the church

00:24:40.200 are two separate endeavors and we need to realize that and and sadly i think the evangelist has kind

00:24:46.260 of taken the spotlight and that's why we have a pretty young in their journey immature church

00:24:51.800 we're living on milk because the lost the people that are new to the faith they need milk their

00:24:57.300 babies babies need milk to survive the problem is that an adult surviving on milk will die

00:25:02.480 and that's why if you're there for 10 years but you're still every sunday as an evangelistic

00:25:08.600 message over and over again, you're not being fed and led by a shepherd. You're just watching

00:25:16.400 evangelism occur again, and you're understanding the elementary parts of the gospel over and over

00:25:21.520 and over again. So just because you have a qualified evangelist that meets an elder's

00:25:24.820 qualifications, that's still not a pastor. And those are different ministries. Pastoral ministry

00:25:31.480 even says that. There are some apostles, some prophets, some teachers, some pastors, and some

00:25:36.060 evangelists they're two different roles in Ephesians 4 that you that you hear about that

00:25:40.580 so I want to just that's an important distinction that you made there so I'm going to close by

00:25:45.380 asking the obvious question which is what do you do if you're at a church and your pastor doesn't

00:25:52.120 meet these qualifications or that your church really is a outreach for evangelism every week

00:25:59.920 And it's not a gathering of the saints to the edifying of the believers for the work of their ministry.

00:26:08.120 What do you do then?

00:26:09.940 And I'm going to say that you have two options.

00:26:11.840 One, if you're at a church, you're close to the leadership, I would say have a conversation and compare the scripture against what you see that's not lining up in their life.

00:26:23.220 I would do that gently in love, according to Matthew 18.

00:26:29.920 And then if that's not an option for you, I would say sit before the Lord and pray that the Lord places you in another local church and consider going on a journey to look for another gathering.

00:26:42.020 And again, we have a great podcast on that titled The Seven Criteria of a Biblical Church, which you can use to evaluate really what should I be looking for when I'm looking for a biblical church.

00:26:53.700 so hopefully this was helpful for you guys and we really care about people being inside of a church

00:27:00.520 that is biblical that's what we're here that's our ministry at relearnchurch.org

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00:27:24.580 But again, thanks guys for joining us today.

00:27:26.400 We will see you next Wednesday.

Dale Partridge - August 21, 2019

Real Christianity #059： Is Your Pastor Biblically Qualified？

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