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Acts 6:2 · BSB
6:2 So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
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…about kind of this function of leadership, this service kind of leader, this deacon. We're going to look at their function in the early church fromActs chapter 6. If you've spent any time reading through the book of Acts, you understand how the church has developed. It's developed significantly from Acts…
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…some good, some bad, some biblical, some unbiblical. And so what I want to do this morning, with the help of God through His Word, is to open up toActs chapter 6and explain biblically what we are getting ourselves into with this gift of deacons this morning. So open it up to Acts chapter 6. And I want you…
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So, we're reading fromActs chapter 6, and we're just reading the first seven verses. Now, in these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists…
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Turn toActs chapter 6. Now it's full Lord's Day, isn't it? It's a good Lord's Day. The church meeting that we're going to have straight after this. There is going to be,…
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…wrong and having done all to stand? That's what a deacon is. A deacon is a knight of truth. We'll turn next, please, to Acts. Turn to the book ofActs chapter 6. As you're turning there, let me pose this question to you. If a church has elders, as we saw last week, why then are deacons needed? And here's…
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…to deal with it and address it and understand it. And not one way or one size is better or better, but it's reality the early Christian church andActs chapter 6is only a few chapters maybe weeks or months after Pentecost. But if you don't happen from Acts chapter 1 to Acts chapter 6, actually. 1 tells us…
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…back there and and we see that in Acts chapter 5 where we read that whole story about all the things that were happening. But I want you to look atActs chapter 6and look at verse #7 because this, I mean this makes it very clear and and a lot of times we don't think about this when we're reading in the book…
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…is this man who leads the church through a conflict situation when the Hellenistic Jews and the Hebraic Jews were arguing against one another. InActs, chapter 6,. This man is leading the church through crisis. He is not known but is leading the church because something has happened in his life. He is the…
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…morning. As Neil said before, I'm Blake Harcastle. I'm the Spiritual Formation Pastor here at Grand Parkway. And this morning we're going to be inActs chapter 6. If you brought a Bible, turn there. We'll be in the first seven verses. And this is the beginning of Deacons. Now, let me first remind you or tell…
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…called to serve. And we see this word used again in the book of Acts. We're giving that the description of the very first deacons who were calledActs chapter 6, and a 6 were told that the church had grown so much that the ministry. You had become too much for the apostles to handle on their own. And so…
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…sheep. He says, how does he feed it feed? The church WIll number one, and you can turn to as many of these passages as you can. We're gonna be inActs chapter 6, give himself to the ministry of the word, Acts chapter 6. Hopefully, you'll recognize the passage we talked about last week which is where the…
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…summarize it the Al's, this is after Jesus died and buried and resurrected the churches began and now the apostles are leading the church. And inActs chapter 6, it says that there were some people that were missing out on their daily ration of bread. So they come to the apostles, the leaders. And they're…
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…Paul's life really was full, because of what that man, Stephen was in so many ways. So this For the reading. If you have your Bibles will look intoActs. Chapter 6is 15 verses long. Verse 1. Now in those days when the number of the disciples was multiplying There, Rose, a complaint against the Jew Hebrews by…
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…hindrance. What is the point? Living things grow. As the word of God spreads, the church increases, and the kingdom grows. So if you come back toActs chapter 6and you read the first verse, it sounds like this is going to be a proper positive moment in the book of Acts. So Acts chapter 6, verse 1. In those…
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…amongst his people. But then specifically. We find the origin of the diaconate in a crisis. So let's go to the passage that Judy read. InActs chapter 6. And here we have. Luke's record of this crisis. In the church. It's really interesting. Chapter 5. You've got hypocrisy. And you've got opposition…
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…community and lastly we're an organised community hot on the heels of the first discipline place for the church is the first business meeting inActs chapter 6now this section in Acts 6 begins with a reference to growth in verse 1 it says now in these days when the disciples were increasing and then if…
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…to material blessing, it's actually led to suffering of various sorts. Bible has those kinds of stories too. Remember Stephen, the first deacon inActs chapter 6and 7, is faithful in proclaiming the gospel and he gets a faith blessing, right? He becomes extremely wealthy. No, he's stoned to death. He…
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…to be? We're going to send a message, what's it going to be? Well, in the book of Acts, we find Stephen being brought to mind. And in the book ofActs chapter 6, there's some reasons and there's some things that happened that I want us to look at and maybe just take a step back. And, and realize this is a…
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…Servants of the work directed by the elders. In addition to this to deacons were also teachers, you remember, Stephen and Philip of Jerusalem andActs chapter 6. Another man that's found in Philippians. Chapter 2, epaphroditus was a teacher in the body of Christ and also a deacon. Well, I want to notice…
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…recognize that apart from the power of God at work in our church, we can do no beneficial thing. And so elders pray and we lead out in prayer.Acts chapter 6and verse 4. Just after the first deacons are appointed, because the apostles were being troubled by this issue of feud distribution, which was an…
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