We are told here that a deacon is a man who holds to the mystery of the faith. The reason that the word "mystery" is used here, with regard to the faith of a deacon, is because everything of the doctrinal truth that they hold to, everything of obedience that they are committed to, is a matter of God's revelation to them. There is mystery in the revelation of God's Persons in the Divine Trinity. There is mystery in the doctrine of Christ, His being 2 natures of both God and Man. There is even mystery in relation to how we should live unto Him. A deacon may not have the gift of teaching or be apt to teach. But it is essential that he hold to the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...