Overseers and
Servants
The case was made
early.
Modern times need
no alteration
To qualifications that
surely
Issued as God’s demarcation.
A noble task,
The office of
overseer.
God simply asks
One wife to him He
foresees her.
Sober-minded,
self-controlled, and respectable,
Not quarrelsome,
nor a drunkard, but gentle;
Such conduct
electable,
To episcopal orders central.
As in the overseer’s
life,
His ecclesiastical
enablers so to:
With dignity and
truth rife,
Their examiners
seeking blamelessness sue.
Overseer and
servant,
With clear minds in
confident belief,
Lead and serve God’s
people in faith most fervent.
Their burden? Joy,
not grief.
We pray for all
bishops and deacons,
First ministries
in the early church,
With Christ-like
reflections, as beacons
Guiding His people
in their search.
1Timothy 3:1-13
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