Our culture doesn’t know what to do with leaders. Sometimes we worship and idolize them in such a way that we become blind to their glaring flaws. More recently, we tear them down.  We resemble kids at a birthday party swarming around a piñata, swinging away with glee.

How do we relate to leaders? Are we going to continue to follow the ebbs and flows of culture? Is there a better way? Our text this morning provides us with tangible, realistic instructions on how to relate with leaders within the church.

1 Timothy 5:17-25