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Your Message Minute with Pastor Chris Byars
1 Timothy 3:1
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It is a trustworthy saying: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a good work.
1 Timothy 3:1, LSB
The call to be a leader in the Church is high. All of us, as Christians, are called to be leaders in the faith, yet our callings are not the same. As a husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, etc. we are called in the faith to stand out and be set apart. Fathers are called to be overseers of their family and set an example for the children of how a husband should love his wife and treat others and a mother gives respect and love to her husband as she cares for the family. In our modern age, these varied gender roles may be seen as problematic and misogynistic, yet when lived out biblically the roles are not of power but of relationship. Nothing is meant to be lorded over another, but all are meant to establish positive relationships of service to one another. As a leader in the Church, this is extended out because none of the qualifications are self-serving but are meant to show the heart of one willing to serve and give of themselves to others while maintaining a good household and setting an example. The life of a Christian is not meant to look like everyone else but set apart in how we live our faith in our homes and stand as a light in a darkened world. The calling our Lord places on us is high and through His grace, we may attain the level of calling He places on our lives so that through our living others may come to know His peace.
Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.