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Peter's Exhortation To Elders (1 Pe 5:1-4) INTRODUCTION. 1. At all times, but especially during persecution, the people of God. need good leadership. 2. In His Divine wisdom, the Lord saw fit to organize His church in. such a way that the condition He witnessed during His earthly. ministry ("like sheep having no shepherd" - Mt 9:36) should not.
Jun 11, 2014 · With this verse in mind, here are a few reflections: 1) An elder is a shepherd. He must care for people. He is not a board member, he is a soul-looker-afterer (yes, I made that word up). A man must genuinely love people and have a preeminent concern for their spiritual welfare. 2) God is in charge. It is “God’s flock” not the flock of the ...
Oct 26, 2020 · 1 Peter 5:5 (a) — The Elders. In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. Summary: Peter commends those under the authority of the church elders to submit to them. Yet there are two kinds of elders. Peter has been addressing the elders of the churches who received his letter. The elders are typically older members ...
5:1-4 The apostle Peter does not command, but exhorts. He does not claim power to rule over all pastors and churches. It was the peculiar honour of Peter and a few more, to be witnesses of Christ's sufferings; but it is the privilege of all true Christians to partake of the glory that shall be revealed.
New Living Translation. Advice for Elders and Young Men. 5 And now, a word to you who are elders in the churches. I, too, am an elder and a witness to the sufferings of Christ. And I, too, will share in his glory when he is revealed to the whole world. As a fellow elder, I appeal to you: 2 Care for the flock that God has entrusted to you.
1. (1) A call to elders. The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: a. The elders who are among you I exhort: Peter will give a word of exhortation to the elders who are among the Christians reading this letter.
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Who am also an elder.--St. Peter is giving no irresponsible advice. He knows by experience the dangers which beset the office. The head Christian of the world, and writing from the thick of the persecution already begun in Rome, the Asiatic elders cannot set his advice down as that of some easy layman who is untouched by the difficulty.
