Paul lists five behaviors that disqualify a person from the position of a Bishop or pastor. A pastor must not be an alcoholic, greedy, one who gets into fist fights, not one who strikes out in anger and not a covetous person (1 Timothy 3:3).
Alcohol blurs the thinking process so that sound judgement is lost (Proverbs 23:19-21, 29-35). The greedy person discards the life of others ( Proverbs 1:19), he brings trouble to his own home (Proverbs 15:27), and they never have enough (Isaiah 56:11). A person who tends to be angry makes foolish decisions (Proverbs 14:17) is unpleasant to live with (Proverbs 21:19) and has a negative impact on everyone around him or her ( Proverbs 22:24-25).
The last negative characteristic, covetousness, may be the worst, because God abhors the covetous (Proverbs 10:3), and those who live a life of coveting will not enter into Christ's kingdom (1 Corinthians 6:10; Ephesians 5:5).
If we do not want pastors to be these things, should not we avoid them as well?
