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Requirements of a Deacon “Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.” (I Timothy 3:12, KJV) The deacon is a family man and servant/minister/table server of the local church, relatively under the theological authority of the overseer. He must keep his wife under Godly control. He should be loving of course, and circumspectual, so as not to be a cajoled or hen-pecked push-over who allows his woman to parade or hide a nakedness (uncleanness). 11. The deacon must be a man of sexual morality and purity, having one wife, as we explained previously. 12. He must rule over his house well, showing love unto his children, encouraging them to do well. He must be a good example of a loving man by the way he treats his wife, as the weaker vessel. He must be the teacher of the house, not a derelict, the wife being submissive to him and teaching the children also--admonishing them of the upside-down contemporary sins of demonic society, both giving an example to the children of Godly orderliness. The children must not be impious, tyrannous, nor fornicators as the sons of Eli. He should be protective of the chastity of his wife, guarding her from predators, narcissists, and being alone with men.
Links Gravity, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: I Ti 3:8 Pure Conscience: I Timothy 3:9 Proved and blameless: I Timothy 3:10 Character of wives of deacons: I Timothy 3:11 Christian Community and Models
BEGINNING A LOCAL CHURCH We must get out of the polluted congregations that will not repent of sexual uncleanness and begin our own congregations. Deacons needed: See above. The best way that I can think of to establish clean churches is to establish communities in order to raise the children to be sexually clean, so they honorably marry and have the sexual cleanliness attribute so as to meet the requirement to serve as ministers.
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