I have stated to you before that the qualifications for the office of a deacon are the same as those for an elder; they are character qualifications. The difference between the two offices is their function and focus of work. It is not that elders are more spiritual in their work and the deacons more physical in theirs. Both deacons and elders should both be spiritually-minded men. And deacons are not merely caretakers of the building and maintenance men; although they do superintend these matters and thus free up the pastor to labor in the Word of God and prayer. But our text says in verse 10 that the man who is raised up to be a deacon should be blameless. This involves a process of evaluation. So what I want to do this afternoon is to set before you the process which you as the congregation, and I as your pastor, will engage in. What will the process be like which will bring a man into the diaconate? I believe that it should include the following steps and evaluations. There are 4 of them.
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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...
