{"id":263467,"date":"2025-09-29T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnganga.org\/new\/john-n-n-nga%c2%80%c2%99anga%c2%80%c2%99a-meditation-of-29th-september-2025a%c2%80%c2%a61st-timothy-4-vs-12-16a%c2%80%c2%a6a%c2%80%c2%a6-the-ideal-spiritual-teacher-leader\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:08:35","slug":"the-ideal-spiritual-teacher-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webfocuskenya.com\/jnnn\/the-ideal-spiritual-teacher-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Of 29th September 2025 – 1st Timothy 4 vs 12-16..the ideal spiritual teacher\/ leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDay 1<\/strong>
\n1 Timothy 4:1<\/strong>
\nThe Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st Timothy chapter 4 is a chapter that is aiming at helping the pastor, the spiritual leader to understand how best he can help his congregation to grow and be established.It opens by telling you, hey! There are people who may have started in the Lord, but could change their faith. So, be careful how you deal with them.<\/p>\n

He is telling them, the minister must instruct the church, the brethren. instruct mean teach, give new information. Do not be the type of person who says Sunday 1, get saved, Sunday 2, get converted, Sunday 3, get redeemed, Sunday 4, know Jesus. That is , repeating evangelism all the time. Remember, they were told that earlier that those who believe you have a job of teaching them, to obey in all areas. So, instruction is the responsibility of any spiritual leader.
\nOf course we are hoping that you yourself would be nourished in doctrine, for you will spend time feeding yourself.Otherwise what will you be feeding others?<\/p>\n

Paul is also advising that you avoid fables; fables are stories not based on scriptures. Instead become a prisoner of God’s word. If there is something you feel nice to say, popular to say, the fad of the day, if it cannot be settled by the scripture, it is a fable! And you a man of God must avoid it, even when it becomes accepted. It is a fable! Avoid it.
\nAnd you know fables are there today. You hear people say, ‘”it is the year 2022, therefore ‘….this and this will happen'”. That is not in the bible! But you are telling it as a story. and it is repeated until people believes the story. Or we hear preachers say we are Africans therefore we are connected to Abraham. Now! It is not in the bible, that is your own telling the story, those are fables. Any spiritual leader is told to avoid it. People can develop those stories, but you should not put your rubber stamp on them. Pastor be a prisoner of God’s word. In other words, say only what God says.<\/p>\n

You know for example some of the controversial areas, people tell stories .For example in marriage. Somebody says, ‘”surely! My husband is simply not interested in me, am I to stay in such a marriage?'”. The word of God says, if you are the one saved and your husband is not, you must stay in the marriage. Only your non Christian husband can leave because he can’t be controlled by the Lord.<\/p>\n

The fact that the circumstances pragmatically suggest that you should support divorce, don’t support it because the bible does not give you that freedom! You are a prisoner of God’s word. You only say what God says. Isn’t that what Balaam was telling Barak the king? However much you pay me, I can only say what the Lord says, I cannot curse the one the Lord has blessed. This is because blessings are not from man, they are not from a prophet, they are not from a parent, they are not from an apostle. Only God can bless but you mentors can ask him to bless you. Apostle cannot bless you, he can only pray for you for you to be blessed.<\/p>\n

So, Balaam said, am helpless, it is true I am a prophet but I can only say what the Lord tells me. So really Balaam wanted Barak to know, blessings are not from human beings. Men of God being source of blessing is another fable.So I am just giving examples of the various fables that people allow currently in their church. I don’t know which one yours is, but you need to avoid them. Don’t put a rubber stamp on fable my pastor friend. Be a prisoner of God’s word.<\/p>\n

Day 2<\/strong>
\n1Timothy 4<\/strong>
\n12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We also learnt that as men of God, we ourselves should practice godliness. But in that way, the congregation can also practice godliness. Why? because that’s what we are taught to do,by the bible. Teach them godliness, teach them to obey what God has said.<\/p>\n

Timothy is told that the best way of communicating and helping people to be discipled is to set a good example. A good example would be in reading God’s word, a good example is by encouraging others, a good example is teaching. All these are areas you should be setting a good example.<\/p>\n

Then this spiritual leader is told to be diligent, not lazy. But somebody who takes his work seriously. You don’t make promises that you can’t keep. You do your best to ensure that you are doing things God’s way. And when you are negligence, so you say ‘”sorry, I forgot'” no, no, no! that is not a man of God Paul is teaching Timothy to be.
\nSo the major message Timothy is being told is take heed yourself, take heed to your doctrine. That means be careful not to move a away from the correct doctrine. Continue in it and I think that will be critical for all pastors.<\/p>\n

Just look at verse 13,<\/p>\n

Until I come, that is Timothy being told by Paul, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
\nIt then mean that a church where the bible reading is not part of the program. It does not set a certain time in the Sunday service or fellowship program to just read the bible! We are not talking about teaching or preaching, simply, it is being called, public reading! So the leader is being told, aa aa! If you leading your church well, there will be time for public reading of scriptures. Of course everybody has a quiet time, their family altars, or whatever else they do to learn Gods word. But in addition to that when the church comes together, they read the bible publicly . That then is public reading of scripture.<\/p>\n

Of course you then have to be careful you don’t create the impression that the scriptures are so holy, the only time you can read them is in church. You must teach people the importance of reading the bible privately before you can emphasize the reading of the bible publicly. But the point is, when the word of God is so clear, how can then a church avoid reading of God’s word? Or you have a preacher who read one verse, one phrase and teaches for one hour on a phrase. And people have gone out of that service hearing the preacher’s voice but they have not heard God’s word. And yet you can see this young pastor is being told that is not a good thing. Before you start preaching, first of all read God’s word publicly for all to hear. But of course it doesn’t mean preaching will not be important. It just means it is a separate exercise, it is not really in the sermon.<\/p>\n

Day 3<\/strong>
\n1 Timothy 4<\/strong>
\n13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know some of the so called historical churches, they have a New Testament reading, and and an Old Testament reading, irrespective what the sermon will be all about. Obviously I encourage that the sermon is related to the reading so that you are helping people to understand what the scriptures they read is all about.<\/p>\n

You remember the Ethiopian eunuch who was reading and was not understanding, and God sent Phillip to explain to the eunuch what he was reading. So reading is important, but preaching has a role too. So I think it will be a good idea if you are able to read God’s word, and after reading God’s word, the preaching later is actually on the same subject so that people start loving God’s word, understanding God’s word, and hopefully, obeying God’s word.
\nSo after the public reading of scripture,Paul says there should be preaching. Public reading of Scripture, flows into preaching and then to teaching. My understanding, when you are preaching, it is a word of exhortation. When you are encouraging people to love the Lord more, to grow in the Lord more, to trust in the Lord more’…. it is a word of exhortation. You are preaching.<\/p>\n

I don’t know whether your church has separate time for preaching, and time for teaching? There is a time when you want to preach and win people to Christ. Every church must do it, and even do an altar call after the preaching.
\nBut the next thing is more than that. In a good service, there will be public reading, there is preaching, but there is also teaching. You get a doctrine and teach on it. Maybe you are running a series for a whole month, covering a certain doctrine.<\/p>\n

That is not preaching, you are teaching. The methodology differs, and the objectives also actually differ. But I think it will be important that is something you do. So, I ask you, in your church, in your congregation, would you say that all those things are happening? That there is public reading of God’s word, that there is preaching of God’s word? And that there is also in addition to that time when you expound doctrine, you teach.<\/p>\n

But why teaching?<\/p>\n

I think it goes deeper than just preaching. It is your responsibility of taking what people are going through, study what the bible says about it and talking about it! For example, if it is a time of elections, shouldn’t you teach people as a way of discipling them on the area of elections? What’s the role of a Christian in elections? Does the bible support the idea of one of the Christians becoming a politician? If you become a politician, does the bible show you how to live your life as a politician? How does the Christian politician continue loving the Lord and walking with him?
\nOr maybe you are going through an epidemic like corona. Or may be then people are having so many questions because of it? Teaching will be on what God says about suffering, what God says about how to behave when you are going through a challenge or a dry parch. What does the bible says about it? So, the idea of having in your church topics which you will cover, will be something that helps you to help your congregation to be discipled in all areas.<\/p>\n

Day 4<\/strong>
\n1 Timothy 4<\/strong>
\n14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But are you only teaching them about assurance of salvation? What about teaching them about prayer, teaching them about reading God’s word? But you want to go beyond that and teach people how to be married. What does it mean to be a husband? What does it mean to be a wife? What does it need to be a mother? What does it mean to be a son? How do you deal with your adult children? As an adult, how do you deal with your old parents? The bible says something all that.Remember the great commission includes that , those who believe,are taught what? Everything I have taught you. So it means whatever the bible has taught from cover to cover, must be covered in our teaching program. It can be done also via bible book after book exposition. I think that’s something that you will have to ask whether your church is actually doing something like that.<\/p>\n

Which other areas of discipleship are not covered in your teaching?<\/p>\n

What about what it means to be an employer? You need to disciple employers to understand what the scriptures say about employers? What about to be an investor or an entrepreneur? You need to teach people what the bible says about being entrepreneurs so that they can be Christian entrepreneurs. What about being employees? What does it mean? What does the bible say about being a Christian employee? You know a lot of people have dichotomy, who they are in the church on Sunday, is not who they are in the week. Part of it we can blame lack of teaching! They think that’s an area the bible says nothing about, so they behave like other non christian.but it is because they have not been properly taught. So it will be very important that you cover all areas that the bible discusses.
\nplurality of Christian leadership<\/p>\n

According to verse 14 says, in addition to all that list you have being given,<\/p>\n

Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
\nSeveral things here. First of all, do you note it was not a bishop who appointed him? Or an apostle who appointed Timothy? Not one person. There was a body of elders. It was not one elder, it was a body of elders. Paul would like to teach Timothy about the plurality of Christian leadership. Christian leadership is not one guy led. Everybody is subject to a somebody else. You may be the vision carrier so called. But your vision must be subjected to the body of elders who hear God just as you hear God. They are not your subordinates. The body of elders are your earthly boss. Each elder reports to you but as a body they supervise the bishop Timothy.<\/p>\n

Timothy is being told, don’t you remember? God used the body of elders to establish you in your ministry. So I want to ask you as a spiritual leader: do you have a body of elders over you? Not people who rubber stamp your vision, but who are able to test whether what vision you have is from God? That way they can guide you. They can correct you because they are not your subordinates.<\/p>\n

Each elder could be your subordinate when he is coming to you as a person, but once they form the body, the body itself is your supervisor.So, Timothy is being asked, don’t you remember? The prophesy that came through the body of elders when they laid their hands on you? And one of the things that happened is they were able to identify his spiritual gift. Timothy spiritual gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
\nSo timothy is being reminded, you are not good in everything, there are some things you are better off than others. He is being told, please identify your gifts, and don’t neglect it!<\/p>\n

What is to neglect? If for example I gave my grandchild a bicycle, then I come three months later and still he doesn’t know how to ride, I stay there the whole week they still don’t try to ride it, what do you think me as the giver of the gift will think? Will I ever give another gift? I will think twice before giving further gifts! Now, similarly, to neglect a gift means to tell the giver God he was not right to give that gift. This leader called Timothy is being taught, no, no, no! Don’t go admiring and copying other people gifts, and operating outside your gift because you think that theirs are very attractive ones. Remember you also have a gift, operate within your gift. Don’t neglect it, if you neglect it, you are dishonoring the one who gave you the gifts.
\nso, you as a spiritual leader, do you operate within your gifts or you try to imagine all gifts are resident in you? So you understand that in the body of elders there are people with gifts you don’t have, do you give them a chance to complement yours? So that for the benefit of the congregation, there are body of gifts they need and you don’t have. The work of a pastor is you facilitate the operation of all these gifts, but you must operate within your own. That will be something very, very important for the church.<\/p>\n

So this issue of who has which gifts is quite something that one needs to talk about when we talk about spiritual gifts. You know some people just think they are just about twelve gifts. There are more than the ones we see in 1st Corinthians chapter 14, and chapter 12.<\/p>\n

Spiritual gifts are many. You go to various places in the bible you find other gifts you have not seen before. Whatever the gift God has given you, operate in it and facilitate others to operate in their gifts for the good of the church and to the glory of God.But also not just spiritual gifts, there are also natural gifts. Sometimes they were not visible before you got saved, but now you are saved and you discover you have it. God cannot give you a gift to waste. The fact that he has given you a gift means there is something he wants you to do in order to benefit mankind. remember the gift is never given for your benefit. The gift is given because of the whole church or because of the world, or because of the people around you. And so you cannot simply sit there with the gift and you are not using it. So don’t neglect it, don’t neglect the gift. It will be taken badly by the one who gave you the gift in the first place.<\/p>\n

But I think in the same way, do not be proud because you have gift I do not have . Don’t feel like, ‘”it is my gift! Others don’t have! I am great'” no! The fact that you have one gift and I have another, means you are not better or worse than me. We both must operate within the church for us to benefit the church in different ways. because again I repeat, gifts are not about the one with the gift, they are for people around you.<\/p>\n

Day 5<\/strong>
\nI Timothy 4<\/strong>
\n15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Which matters are you to be diligent on? The ones we have been talking about, which is the role of a Christian leader. All of them, not some of them. Yyou must be diligent in all these matters. When we talk about being diligent, it just means you take whatever God has given you to do seriously and you take the people you are discipling seriously. That’s what it will mean when we say you are diligent in all matters. Not some, but in all the matters.Are there some areas of need in your group of followers which you are ignoring? Then you cannot be called diligent! Some matters that you have to establish a new. Be diligent in these matters, give yourself wholly to them all! hee!<\/p>\n

But as if be diligent is not enough, you are also to give yourself wholly to them. In other words, you are not allowed to have touch and go kind of thing. Once you make a commitment to do something, you must do it fully.
\nYou can be accused of not doing a good job, but you cannot be accused of not trying hard enough. So, giving yourself wholly to the issues that are required of you as a spiritual leader, is a requirement. That is what Paul is saying must be done. And it will be critical that you take that seriously. Give yourself wholly to them. That word wholly is quite a word! Wholly means, there is no room left out. Are you leaving certain room undone? Everybody thinks you are doing such a good job, but you know you are capable of doing more! Then you cannot use the word wholly, because there is a something you are reserving. Is there something you could do for the good of the church or community and you are not doing. Give yourself wholly to these things?<\/p>\n

That way then there is no reserve tank. You have totally committed yourself to whatever it is that is been done or needs to be done. You need to ask yourself is there something you are doing or not doing? Can you use the word wholly appropriately? Have you given yourself wholly to these matters.So, when we say wholly, it means that there is no reserved energy. You are totally involved, you are doing your very best, and your time is fully extended on the areas we have discussed as a spiritual leader. That’s wholly. But wholly also means there are not certain aspects you are leaving out that need to be covered on any one of the matters we have been looking at. So, it will be important that all of them are things that you look at and find a way dealing with.<\/p>\n

Day 6<\/strong>
\n1 Timothy 4<\/strong>
\n16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This young pastor is being told, number one, Watch your life. mmh! can you imagine somebody tells you ‘”watch your life!'” or watch out! Most likely what will be happening for you to watch out? It means you are going without fully assessing your surroundings, or you are going without fully looking where you are stepping. You are going without fully being conscious,or you are absent minded, Paul is saying that’s not a good way of serving God, or of being a spiritual leader. You must understand that you must watch your life before watching that of God’s children.
\nWatch your life means, you don’t take risks that are not calculated. You don’t do things that could give you trouble because you did not fully think about what you are doing. That’s what it means you really are watching out your life.<\/p>\n

But you are also asked to watch over your doctrine closely. That means you keep evaluating your teaching. My suggestion would be that if you are preaching, have your spouse or somebody else telling you whether what you covered came out clear. Or what they think what you said is not in line with the scriptures. Allow people to question you, because the idea is to watch out on your own doctrine. You tell people, whenever you see I am going the wrong direction, I am moving at tangent, after the service just come and approach me, and tell me. So, watch out your life but also watch out your doctrine closely.
\nNext, Persevere in them. What is to persevere? Persevere has the connotation that there will be many discouraging things, there will be pains, frustrations, and tiredness, you feel ‘”oh! this is too much now! Do I need to give up?I have done it for too long!'” No, no, no! Persevering person means you keep going even when it is not easy to go. You keep going even when you can’t see the benefits in the sort term. You keep going just because God has told you to go.<\/p>\n

That’s what we are talking about when we talk about persevering. And you are being told for you to be a good leader, you must learn perseverance. That means you don’t go resigning at every insult you get.Or you start resigning because people do not appreciate you. You stay with it, until you understand what else can be done. so, persevere in them, because if you do, if you persevere in them, you will save both yourself and your hearers. so, all these things we are being told, the reason why Paul is teaching him about these commitment, and why you give yourself wholly, and balancing doctrine are for salvation of your people.<\/p>\n

Day 7
\nRevelation 3
\n15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other<\/p>\n

Why we do and persevere in it is number one, as we saw back to verse one, is so that you don’t end up with people going off the line. verse 1 says,<\/p>\n

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
\nThat’s why you are being careful because there is a possibility of them going off the line. So you are backsliding! You have prevented that. It actually means, if you teach them in correct way, they will understand this is the wrong way. Just like they say, if you want a cashier not be cheated with money, let him understand the correct currency fully, he will always notice the bad one, because in no time and his mind is fully clear how the correct currency look like.
\nNumber two, you do all these so that you yourself do not get lost. The devil is on a war path, because he know if he gets you, he will get your hearers. That’s paul says, the reason you are being careful, is because you yourself shouldn’t get lost. You must be a person who will go to these things , persevere in them, why? Because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.<\/p>\n

May the Lord help us to understand about this ideal pastor, ideal spiritual leader that Timothy is being trained to become. And practice them for our own salvation .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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