قيم وممارسات ومواصفات وواجبات رجال الدين والقَادَةُ والخدام فِي الكَنِيسَة/Values, practices, specifications and duties of the clergy, leaders and servants in the church
Values, practices, specifications and duties of the clergy, leaders and servants in the church From the First Epistle of Saint Paul the Apostle to Timothy 03/01 to 13
Leaders in the Church
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence; (for how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule his own house take care of God’s assembly?) not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Servants in the Church
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things. Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.”This is the greatest and first commandment.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 22,35-40.
A lawyer, asked Jesus a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? ’He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. “This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbour as yourself. “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.’