make sure the pastoral leadership know we have given (because they may pay more attention to us at the next church meeting, c.f. James 2:1–4). Instead we are to give generously or with simplicity (that is, to give in order that the recipients may receive). 6. ‘… if it is leadership, let him govern diligently’. (The meaning ‘the one who gives aid’ is less likely. The word used here is used of leadership in 1 Thess. 5:12 and 1 Tim. 5:17) Leadership ought to be costly rather than self-serving. We lead