Disqualifications for ministry

[bishoph]

First, your question is to broad/far reaching. To say disqualification of ministry in general would i believe would be incorrect. The office of a bishop referred to pastoral ministry and the deacons were ministers in training.

Secondly, if you were to say that because a minister's children were not living right he is disqualified, to follow that logically to its conclusion would mean that God would have to be disqualified because his children are often not living right. God was the best parent possible and Adam & Eve chose to sin. If a man raises his children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and his children refuse to live right, he should not be judged by the choices of his children. However, if they are living in his home, he must present to them the hard choice of following his example or moving out.

Lastly, of good report can be seen more clearly IMO in Paul's letter to Titus where he uses the word "blameless." One cannot always be free of negative reports about their character, but the word blameless here means where nothing can be proven, or lacks evidence or proof of. Someone may accuse a minister of many things, especially in our day, but that does not mean it is factual/true.

I am skeptical and careful when it comes to these kinds of threads, because so many (not saying this is true of the original poster) use these things to try to justify their lack of submission to the man of God in their life.