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