"It is a trustyowrthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is fine work he desires to do.  An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, uncontentous, free from the love of money.  He must be one who manges his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how ill he take care of the church of God?) and not a new convert, let he become conceited and fall into condemnation incurred by the devil." 1 Timothy 3: 1-6

Now this is one of the reasons I left Trinity Baptist church in Reedsburg.  Pastor Lopp, has been putting people who are recent converts into overseer positions at the church.  Now perhaps they should be considered on matters that they are familiar with.  However, this is clearly against the scriptures.

In Timothy we find three groups:  overseers and deacons, elders, and ministers.  This makes up the church leadership.  Each has a different role to play.

Why does he need to bring in people from the outside?  Can not he develop people within his church?  He has been the Pastor there for many years.  What has been the result of this?  My thoughts go to Tom Thorpe.  Pastor Lopp, brought him in and he took a bunch of people with him when he left to found his movement.  Now I'm not saying what Tom Thorpe was right or wrong.  I'm saying that instead of relying on others to raise up his disciples he ought to be doing that himself.