Not Quick-Tempered: Why Patient, Christlike Self-Control Is Essential for Elders (Titus 1:5–9)
Deep Dive into Not Quick-Tempered: Why Patient, Christlike Self-Control Is Essential for Elders (Titus 1:5–9)Based on Titus 1:7, the requirement that an elder be "not quick-tempered" is a divine mandate essential for the spiritual health of the church. This qualification is grounded in the office of the overseer as "God’s steward" (oikonomos), a servant entrusted to manage God's household rather than own it. Because the elder acts as a visible representative of the Master, a volatile temperament is a theological contradiction; an irritable man suggests to the flock that God is capricious and…
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