Translations:DEV 06FN Selecting and Empowering Leaders/38/en


 * Growing in character and is becoming a good example (Titus 1:5-9, 1 Peter 5:3)
 * Skills and faithfulness are tested (Matthew 25:20-26)
 * Full of the Holy Spirit and growing in Love (Acts 6:4; Colossians 1:3-4)
 * Showing faithfulness to the Word (Titus 1:9, Hebrews 13:7)
 * Selecting will take prayer and fasting (Luke 6:12)
 * God will choose those that are unlikely because they are hungry and teachable (1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Chronicles 11:10; 12:1)
 * What people can become may not be what they are now (Titus 1:12-13)
 * Use the proving process of faithfulness and fruitfulness (3/3 discipleship); Faithful in a little, faithful in much (Matthew 25:21)
 * Repeated faithfulness results in a person of proven worth – ex. Timothy in Philippians 2:22
 * Paul appointed more than one elder for each church (Acts 14:21-23)