Letter to Timothy: Church Offices (13): Deaconesses

Dear Timothy, Dear Timothy, In our last letter we had turned to a discussion of the work of deacons. I answered in part your questions concerning the recent decision of the Christian Reformed Church to allow women into the office of deacons provided that they were not considered as elders and given the same authority as elders. But I did not finish this question: we talked about the use of the term "deacon" and the term "deaconess" in Scripture and found that the argument of the Christian...