After laying out church policy for the compensation of pastors, Paul then moves to the subject of rebuking pastors. Pastors should get the same benefit of the doubt that everyone gets, according to Matthew 18. If you have a problem with someone, you need to go to that person yourself and gently rebuke him in private. If he doesn't listen to you, then take one or two more witnesses, so that the fact may be properly established. Timothy is told not to receive an accusation against an elder unless there be two or three witnesses. That is essentially the rule for everyone in Matthew 18. There is no point in listening when someone comes up to you and makes an accusation against another person. The first question for such an accuser should be: "Have you talked to the person yourself?" If not, there is no point in continuing the discussion. Next, Paul instructs Timothy not to implement any of the policies laid out in this letter in a spirit of partiality or bias. It is all to be done objectively and not adjusted according to a "good old boy club. " Third, Paul addresses the issue of laying hands on men too hastily for the ministry. We are not to be in such a rush to get preachers in various positions of need that we fast forward through the evaluation and testing process, no matter how urgent the need may be. Better to have a pastor-less congregation here and there, better to have no missionary in a field, than to have a bad one.
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