Leadership: I Peter 5:1-11

Mark Knetsch

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1 Peter 5:1–11

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Peter the Leader

A fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed

“Fellow Elder”: sumpresbyteros:

As a fellow elder Presbyteros

Peter practices Leadership: Not about rank!

Presbyteros:

Presbys: ‘old man’

Many passages in the Greek version of the Old Testament:

: Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years.

: “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?

Presbyteros: ‘synagogue elder’

Little Kiddle: elder: for presidents, members of various guilds, committees etc., village officials, executive committees of priests, and senior groups of different types.

The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged in One Volume πρέσβυς, πρεσβύτερος, συμπρεσβύτερος, πρεσβυτέριον

b. for presidents, members of various guilds, committees etc., village officials, executive committees of priests, and senior groups of different types.

: Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years.

“Designation of age and also as a title of office”

: “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?

TDNT: “Designation of age and also as a title of office”

“Designation of age and also as a title of office”

Side note: why not priests?

hiereus (priest) is related to hieron (temple)

Peter Witness of the sufferings of Christ:

A witness of the suffering of Christ

Humility. Everyone knows I ignored Jesus three times...

Everyone also knows what Jesus did to me:

Peter: Peter was restored three times to do what? Feed my sheep ()

Exhort the elders (as a fellow elder and a witness of the suffering of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed)

As well as a partaker (koinonia) in the glory that is going to be revealed

Peter: Peter was restored three times to do what? Feed my sheep ()

Two Verbs

Two Verbs:

So I exhort to the elders… SHEPHERD the flock of God that is among you

Elders= Presbyteros

Verb #1: Shepherd- verb

Latin= Pastor

Shepherd= poimaino

Shepherd=Pastor=elder

‘to tend to sheep; to act as a shepherd’

How does one act like a Shepherd?

Act like the CHIEF SHEPHERD!

Discipline and Direction:

: Rod and Staff

Rod and staff- go to greener pastures. Presence during the valleys.

With people, walking alongside people. Loving people.

Protects and Provides:

11 “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

13 And I will bring them out… gather them from the countries… I will feed them

15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. 16 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

17 “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? 19 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

Sacrifice and Relationship

am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

: By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Hunter and Rescuer

: Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Protects and Preserves ‘Little Ones’

Latin= Pastor

: So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Exercising oversight

Verb #2: Exercising oversight

Episkopeo: ruled by overseers= bishops!

Episcopalian Model: Bishops

Episcopalian

Angelican

Methodist

Catholic

Eastern Orthodox

Overseer= Bishop- as if another office?? But it’s used interchangeably with elder.

Acts 20:28 ESV

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Philippians 1:1 ESV

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

1 Timothy 3:1–2 ESV

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

Titus 1:7 ESV

For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,

Acts 20:28 ESV

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

Elder/Bishop/pastor Exercise Oversight:

How? Well, that’s what the next section is all about:

How to Carry out their Responsibilities:

1. Must vs. Willing

Negative: DO NOT Oversee under compulsion

NIV: ‘not because you must’

Not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you

Every year for elder nominations it was a battle trying to get the right number of nominations forward. It was always a bit of a grind getting names forward, approved, etc. It’s a big responsibility

Pastor: “I preach what the people want to hear.”

On call.

Positive: BUT willingly, as God would have you

Not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you

but willingly, as God would have you

Not a ‘have to’ but a ‘get to’

Extreme Beauty: Glories of the Job:

Not a ‘have to’ but a ‘get to’

Baptism of Lily

Premarital Counseling and weddings

Walk alongside people who are hurting and struggling

Preach the word!

Elders:

Discipleship, mission, vision, direction, pastoral care, marriage difficulties.

2. Greed vs. Eager Service

Negative: DO NOT Exercise oversight for shameful gain (aischrokerdos, ‘in fondness for dishonest gain’, greedily’), but eagerly

Calvin: Desire for gain

Relevant Magazine: Harvest: 13,000 members church: MacDonald’s former bodyguard Jacob Ross sent a letter to church leadership that was leaked to journalist Julie Roys, explaining MacDonald was unhappy with the $5,000 budget he’d been allotted for a vacation. According to Roys, MacDonald wanted to hunt a “high-value animal” as part of his African safari, “a sable to be specific, which cost $15,000 to $20,000.” Harvest complied and wired MacDonald the extra money. The former pastor justified the money, “citing his stress from the trip and need for a relaxing vacation doing something he enjoyed.”

Had a stuffed bear he shot shipped from Alaska to his home town on the church’s dime.

$80,000/month

Mark Driscall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/06/04/wealthy-televangelist-explains-his-fleet-private-jets-its-biblical-thing/

Harvest complied and wired MacDonald the extra money. The former pastor justified the money, “citing his stress from the trip and need for a relaxing vacation doing something he enjoyed.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/06/04/wealthy-televangelist-explains-his-fleet-private-jets-its-biblical-thing/

Why a pastor needs a private jet?

Kenneth Copeland: “You can’t manage that today, in this dope-filled world, get in a long tube with a bunch of demons.”

He later clarified in a separate interview that the demons weren’t people, that he loves people, but that people do bad things and demons cling on to them…

2. Greed vs. Eagerness

Positive: Exercise oversight Eagerly

Postive: Exercise oversight Eagerly

Serve eagerly- with motivation. Passion.

Not seflish, like greed, but for the interest and faith development of others

Greet people, meet them, seek them, be eager to serve

greed is selfish, eagerly shepherd- serving others

3. Domineering vs. Examples of Sheep

Negative: Don’t exercise oversight being Domineering

Domineering: “forcefully ruling over, subduing.” “always seems to involve bringing something into subjection by the use of force.”

Christianity Today: “They concluded Driscoll had “been guilty of arrogance, responding to conflict with a quick temper and harsh speech, and leading the staff and elders in a domineering manner," but had "never been charged with any immorality, illegality or heresy. Most of the charges involved attitudes and behaviors reflected by a domineering style of leadership.”

“They concluded Driscoll had “been guilty of arrogance, responding to conflict with a quick temper and harsh speech, and leading the staff and elders in a domineering manner," but had "never been charged with any immorality, illegality or heresy. Most of the charges involved attitudes and behaviors reflected by a domineering style of leadership.”

$210,000 to a company that would sell more books written by the pastor so that it could be on the NY Times bestseller list

Chilliwack: Pastor Bully: If you disagreed with him, he wouldn’t want to talk to you about anything.

Positive: Be Examples to the Flock

Be a sheep!

Don’t assume you know everything and have all the right answers for very thing.

Humility: Understand your place, under Christ, you are just another sheep.

Follow the shepherd:

Strive for holiness

Love the Lord

Two Part Conclusion:

Glorious but not Glamorous

vs. 4: And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

Elders Job is glorious, but it’s not glamorous, and the church has mixed these two things up!

John Cooper: Skillet

“Ok I’m saying it. Because it’s too important not to. What is happening in Christianity? More and more of our outspoken leaders or influencers who were once “faces” of the faith are falling away.

“My conclusion for the church (all of us Christians): We must STOP making worship leaders and thought leaders or influencers or cool people or “relevant” people the most influential people in Christendom. (And yes that includes people like me!) I’ve been saying for 20 years(and seemed probably quite judgmental to some of my peers) that we are in a dangerous place when the church is looking to 20 year old worship singers as our source of truth. We now have a church culture that learns who God is from singing modern praise songs rather than from the teachings of the Word.

“It is time for the church to rediscover the preeminence of the Word. And to value the teaching of the Word. We need to value truth over feeling. Truth over emotion. And what we are seeing now is the result of the church raising up influencers who did not supremely value truth who have led a generation who also do not believe in the supremacy of truth. And now those disavowed leaders are proudly still leading and influencing boldly AWAY from the truth.