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PotOnWheel
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Posted 8/1/2003 6:27 PM (GMT -6)

What's a deacon?

Please answer from among these three answers if possible.

Any posts commenting, explaining, or asking for the ideas of others are welcomed.

Be prepared to read a W--I--D--E range of answers. This may be interesting. Be accomodating of each other!

Pot-on-wheel

PotOnWheel
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Posted 8/1/2003 6:30 PM (GMT -6)

Don't get thrown by the age of this image.

http://saints.oca.org/IconDirectory/LG/august/0802stephen.jpg

The various objects this FIRST deacon is holding each are representative of the job he did. What would YOUR idea of a deacon look like if drawn in a realistic/cymbolic fashion?

Or not. You don't have to click.

BillZeeBub
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Posted 8/1/2003 6:35 PM (GMT -6)

Hey. What's that rope thingy for. Gathering?

fencesitter
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Posted 8/1/2003 6:42 PM (GMT -6)

Are they the guys who hire and fire pastors?

DLW
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Posted 8/2/2003 6:53 AM (GMT -6)

My father is a deacon. It is on the shoulders of deacons and deaconesses and elders and elderesses that the mundane problems of orders facing all churches rest(at least in a Baptist Church).

Pastors are specialists in understanding scripture and tradition and do serve as counselors quite often or as my great-uncle would say as "professional lovers" Wink

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dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

John Earp
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Posted 8/2/2003 8:11 AM (GMT -6)

The Gk. word translated "deacon" in our English Bibles is diakonos. It is also translated in other places in our English Bibles as "servant," and "minister." Jesus said he that would be greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven must be the servant of all. Hmmm.

"The Discovery of new truth will modify old views and opinions, and there is perhaps no end to this process with finite minds in any world." Charles G. Finney, Systematic Theology.

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