The Lord's Day Morning October 3, 2004 I Timothy 5:17-25 “Accountable Leadership” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter five, as we continue to work through the Pastoral Epistles: these three letters from Paul, I Timothy, II Timothy, and Titus, written from an apostle, a master teacher/preacher, evangelist, missionary, church planter, to a young man who has been part of his mission team, who is now a settled pastor in a local congregation. Paul is establishing in these books the priorities of a healthy church. He's not just telling us how Ephesus ought to be, or how the churches in Crete ought to be, or how the churches elsewhere in Asia Minor ought to be. He's telling us how church life ought to be everywhere,…