The Office of the Deacon (2)

In our last article we emphasized that the deacon's office, apart from the question whether or not Acts 6records its historical origin, is divinely instituted and has the sanction of the Word of God. Christ will have deacons in His church as well as elders and ministers of the Word. The church that has no diaconate, or where the diaconate fails to function according to the mandate and calling of God's Word, suffers a very serious lack of something that is essential to her existence. In our...