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Gift vs Character in Church Leadership: Why Correction Matters
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We need to distinguish gift from character. It’s wonderful to have gifted people in our churches, but don’t necessarily put them straight into positions of responsibility until we’ve established what their character is. It’s clear in the instructions towards appointing elders and deacons that we, look into people’s character.
But this is just a general wise suggestion. If you’re going to admit somebody into your worship team, will that be helpful to them? Find out who they are first.
Something else we can do in the church is to encourage and normalise correction. We are to correct each other and that needn’t be confrontational. Proverbs 27, verse 17. Iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another.
We are to be iron sharpening iron, and that can be uncomfortable. But we should welcome it because it’s good for us and it’s good for each other, and it’s loving.
