NEW TESTAMENT DEACON: THE CHURCHS MINISTER OF MERCY PB

My heartfelt burden is to help deacons get out of the boardroom or the building-maintenance mentality and into the people-serving mentality.

Deacons, as the New Testament teaches and as some of the sixteenth-century reformers discovered, are to be involved in a compassionate ministry of caring for the poor and needy. The deacons' ministry, therefore, is one that no Christ-centered, New Testament church can ever afford to neglect. Christians today must understand the absolute necessity for and vital importance of New Testament deacons to the local church so that the needy, poor, and suffering of our churches are cared for in a thoroughly christian manner. This is a matter dear to the heart of God.

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