Leadership is all about influence. Paul understood this unique reality of leadership and it is why he spent so much time training and building up leaders. It was important to Paul that anyone who would seek to lead the churches he started would have a solid foundation of true doctrine and true character. If leadership was all about influence then Paul wanted to make sure that those who were influencing others were of sound character and good doctrine. The church was a new thing that God was doing and with the power of the Holy Spirit it was growing extremely rapidly among the known world and Paul knew that eventually he would die and someone else would have to take the baton from him and run with it, it's with this frame of mind that Paul wrote letters to Timothy and Titus sharing with them some valuable leadership insight and giving them instructions on how to pick leaders in their various communities.
Everything about the Early Church was new and that was probably both......
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