Requirements of a Deacon

“And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.” (I Timothy 3:10, KJV)

The deacon is a family man and servant/minister/table server of the local church, relatively under the theological authority of the overseer.

6. He must be tested and approved. The deacon must not have any faults or vulnerabilities that could give a bad example or harm visitors of the church. The deacon must be blameless.

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Gravity, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: I Ti 3:8

Pure Conscience: I Timothy 3:9

Character of wives of deacons: I Timothy 3:11

One wife: I Timothy 3:12

Ruling the home: I Timothy 3:12

Christian Community and Models

BEGINNING A LOCAL CHURCH
We must start churches that meet the requirements of God. We need faithful, clean couples, not men with defiled wives, to be able to serve as officers in the church. Since we are in the apostasy, it is even hard to find a church that can meet the requirements.

We must get out of the polluted congregations that will not repent of sexual uncleanness and begin our own congregations.

Overseers needed:

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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