In this episode of Unpacking, Sergio takes a scalpel to the Pastoral Epistles—1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus—and exposes how these “crisis letters” were turned into a modern pastor blueprint. You’ll walk through the household-of-God framework (1 Tim 3:15), the actual biblical qualifications for leadership (1 Tim 3; Titus 1), and the Jewish soil beneath “elder,” “overseer,” and “servant.” Then we trace how church-state incentives, institutional instincts, and modern Christian nationalism can reframe Scripture into a tool for clerical immunity. The goal isn’t rebellion—it’s repentance: letting the text correct the system, recovering servant leadership, and calling the body back to community where shepherds serve and no office stands above the people.
