1.A personal relationship with God
James 4:8 (Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you…)
2.The interest in listening to preaching tapes an watching Word videos
Ezekiel 2:2 (And the spirit entered into the me when he spake unto me…)
3.The personal fasting life of the shepherd
2 Corinthians 11:27 (In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness)
4.Availability for the work
Acts 1:21 (Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time…)
5.The individual’s financial input to the church
Matthew 26: 14-16 (Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot…)
6.People handling skills
1 Timothy 3:2-3 (A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife)
7.Preaching and teaching skills
2 Timothy 2:2 (And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses…)
8.An interest in evangelism
Matthew 18:12 (How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep…)
9.Visiting, counselling and organisational abilities
2 Timothy 2:24 (And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient)
10.Having a stable and happy marriage
1 Timothy 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
11.Catching the spirit of the leader
Numbers 11:24-25 (And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and TOOK OF THE SPIRIT THAT WAS UPON HIM, AND GAVE IT UNTO THE SEVENTY)
12.Your relationship with the opposite sex
1 Timothy 5:1-2 (Rebuke not an elder, but INTREAT him as a father; and THE YOUNGER AS SISTERS, WITH ALL PURITY)
13.Loyalty
1 Timothy 3:8 (Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, NOT DOUBLE-TONGUED, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain)
Diabolos
Greek word for slanderer - which means devils
14.Having personal financial and job stability
James 1:8 (A double minded man in unstable in all his ways)
15.A person with a vision
Proverbs 29:18 (Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he)
