God gave the local church two offices, the pastor and the deacon. Deacons are not so much men who are ordained for the purpose of ministering the Word of God as they are laymen who are selected for furthering the total work of the ministry. To see the fullness of what God designed, in contrast to what people have sometimes developed, let us consider what deacons are and are not. Consider three things that deacons are not. First, they
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