The overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.
–1 Timothy 3:2-6 (NIV)–
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Wesleyan denominations that teach the second and third uses of God’s law after justification, in other words, gradual imperfect obedience to the moral law for sanctification–the Free Methodist Church, the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, Church of God (Anderson), and Church of God (Cleveland) which is Pentecostal; and when it comes to Calvinist denominations–the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the United Reformed Churches (URCNA), and the Confessional Baptist Association (CBA).
Ronald Enroth, Churches That Abuse (Zondervan, 1992).
Stanley Gundry, ed. Five Views on Law and Gospel (Zondervan, 1996).
Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments (Banner of Truth, 1965).
Dr. John Gerstner, Jonathan Edwards: A Mini-Theology (Tyndale, 1987).
Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).
Mark Jones, Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest? (P&R, 2013).
John Fletcher, Checks to Antinomianism (Beacon Hill Press, 1948).
