It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentious, free from the love of money. 1 Timothy 3:1-3 Were you aware of how specific Pual was in his qualifications fr elders and overseers? Now that we have read and reread 1 Timothy 3: 8-13, make a list of the qualifications. Read Philippians 1:1. In the Greek word, deacon means servant or minister. …