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Scholarly studies considering Paul’s views on leadership tend to fall into one of three camps: 1) the historical development view, which in large measure identifies developments in church practice with developments in Pauline and deutero-Pauline ecclesiology; 2) the synchronic, historical reconstruction, typically making use of Greco-Roman, social context sources, or social-scientific modeling,...

unclear whether 1 Tim. 3:4–5 envisages that overseers should have the ability to manage a community that is comparable in size to a household, or to manage a community after the fashion of managing a household. Nonetheless, if we combine these passages, there are clearly two skill sets required of the overseer: knowing, appropriately applying, and teaching the word of God; and, secondly, being able to lead and care for at least a small community of people. The list of character traits must be seen
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