The Pattern of Godly Leadership

Thesis: The Apostle Paul as a Pattern for godly Leadership

Introduction

1 Corinthians 4:14–17 NASB95

I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and he will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

1. Godly Elders Are Surrendered to the Master

2. Godly Elders Are Surrendered to The Masters Message (vv1b-2)

meaning of “Apostles”

“An Apostle is one chosen and sent with a special mission as the fully authorised representative of the sender.” The Gospel of God, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“An apostle means literally ‘one who is sent’, someone who is commissioned with the authority of the one who sent him.” R. C. Sproul

“The apostles also knew that they were to witness in an extraordinary, supernatural sense. Because they were apostles, God spoke authoritatively through them, so that what they said as apostles carried the force of divine teaching or Scripture. “ James Montgomery Boice

pastors are not apostles we preach the same message of the apostles

3. Godly Elders Are Surrendered to The Masters Method

1 Corinthians 1:20–25 NASB95

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

2 Timothy 4:1–2 NASB95

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.