Tyrant (Titus #6)

Tyrant

Text: Titus 1:7

(Church Leadership)

This is a tyrant. This type of person is oppressive and dictatorial.

Refuses to learn in light of clear error

  • Proverbs 29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

Takes hard positions on things to prove his authority

Will endure much pain just to be right

  • Proverbs 27:22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. This is like grinding him in a pestle like you would wheat and it won’t matter.

Puts his agenda over everything else

He wants to be in control for control’s sake

  • The alternative is being in control for the well-being of people around you.
  • Diotrophes was like this.

The elder must be able to do God’s work in God’s way

The elder must be able to convince others, not impose himself on others