A Bible Based Deacon Ministry

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Welcome! Discipleship and Family
Department Florida Baptist Convention 1230
Hendricks Ave Jacksonville FL 32207 800.226.8584
extension 3070 www.flbaptist.org rsaint
_at_flbaptist.org
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A Bible Based Deacon Ministry
presented by Roy Lee Saint, Associate
Director Discipleship Family Department Florida
Baptist Convention
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A Bible Based Deacon Ministry
What is a Bible Based Deacon? Why does a Church
have a Deacon Ministry?
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Five Things You Dont Need To Be A Deacon

• A complete collection of socket
• wrenches and drill bits. (Helpful
• but not necessary.)
• An innate ability to commandeer a business
  meeting in 3.2 seconds.
• Freedom from ordinance elbowan inability to pass
  the Lords Supper trays.
• The ability to please everybody all the time.
• A perfectly pronounced public prayer for each and
  every occasion.

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• A Bible based deacon ministry can only be
  accomplished when the deacons involved in it are
  Bible based deacons.

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A Bible Based Deacon Ministry

• Serves Christ as Lord
• Is servant oriented
• Understands the mission of the church
• Ministers actively
• Exercises proper leadership
• Relies on the Holy Spirit
• Rejoices in Fathers Well Done!

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A Bible Based
Call Of Deacons
Select from among you men of good reputation,
full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put
in charge of this ministry. Acts 63
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Video
A Bible Base Call Of Deacons "
Answer The Call
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A Bible Base Call Of Deacons
Delight yourself in the LORD And He will give
you the desires of your heart. Psalms 374
(NASB77)

• Calling, also referred to as passion, will lead
  you to compelling action.
• Your calling is your heart for people, issues,
  functions, or causes.

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Bible Based Qualifications

• 1 Timothy 3
• Christian dedication (38)
• Deacons likewise must be men of dignity
• Dignity, Graveone who possesses Christian
  purpose, who has great reverence for spiritual
  matters. One whose word carries weight.
• Truthfulness in speech (38)
• Not double-tongued
• Dependable and responsible in controlling the
  tongue

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Bible Based Qualifications

• Disciplined Christian living (38)
• Not addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain.
• Temperate in living, steward of good influence,
  doing all to the glory of God.
• Not greedy of lucrea right attitude toward
  material possessions, not eager to exploit others
  for his own gain or profit.
• Integrity in Christian conduct (39)
• But holding to the mystery of the faith with a
  clear conscience.
• One who gives strength to the church fellowship
  and one who possesses spiritual integrity beyond
  reproach.

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Bible Based Qualifications

• Proven spiritual maturity (310)
• And let these also first be tested then let them
  serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.
• Tested and provedone who demonstrates these
  spiritual qualifications before being elected to
  serve as a deacon.
• Christian family life (312)
• Let deacons be husbands of only one wife, and
  good managers of their children and their own
  households.
• One whose family is well-cared for, whose family
  relationships are healthy and growing. Model of
  faithful devotion to one spouse, committed to the
  sanctity of the marriage bond. Manages his own
  home well, loved and respected by his spouse and
  children, firm but with compassion and tenderness
  of Christ.

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Biblical Signs of Immaturity

• Inability to relate to one another
  1 Corinthians 31-2
• Under bondage to elementary things of the world
  Galatians
  43
• Running after every doctrinal fad
  Ephesians 414
• Not progressing past spiritual ABCs
  Hebrews 512 61

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Biblical Signs of Spiritual Maturity

• Growth in grace
  2 Peter 318
• Growth in knowledge of Christ
  2 Peter 318
• Growth in faith
  1 Thessalonians 13
• Growth in Christ-likeness
  Ephesians 413

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Service
No one has ever risen to the real stature
of spiritual maturity until they have found it
finer to serve someone else than to serve
themselves.
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Basic Convictions about Deacon Ministry

• Baptist deacons should let Baptist Polity be
  their guide.
• Deacons find their purpose in helping the church
  be all that God established the church to be as
  Christs body in extending Gods Kingdom on
  earth.
• The church belongs to God and not to us. God
  gives it to us as a gracious gift and a
  stewardship responsibility.

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Basic Convictions

• The chief purpose of the church references
  accomplishing Gods purposes for Gods glory and
  not what seems comfortable or reasonable to us.
• As a deacon you should feel a sense of the
  leadership of our Lord to a place of service and
  not to a place of honor or power. You dont serve
  to meet your needs.

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Basic Convictions

• The Bible, NOT our traditions, gives us guidance
  for deacon ministry.
• The main work of deacons does not occur in the
  meeting of deacons.
• Deacon and spouse serve as a ministering couple.
• Deacons and pastors serve in a team relationship
  as partners in ministry.

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Basic Convictions

• Deacons, with whom I have served, have wanted to
  do what they understood should be done. However,
  many of these deacons had wrong understandings.

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Developing Leaders ? Strengthening Families ?
Equipping Leaders for Ministry
Break Time
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Deacons Minister From Their Call
But select from among you, brethrenAnd the word
of God kept on spreading. Acts 63,7
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Ministry

• Ministry is individual, redemptive, loving
  service given inside and outside the church under
  the leadership of the Holy Spirit which meets
  peoples needs and fulfills the churchs mission.

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Deacons Minister From Their Purpose
We are servants working together to meet the
spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of the
church as empowered through the gifts of the
Holy Spirit.
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Video
Deacons Minister From Their Purpose "
What Is Your Purpose?
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What is YOUR purpose?
Discuss...
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Deacon MinistryMust Address the Needs of the
Church and the Community
And Jesus increased in wisdom, and stature, and
in favor with God and man. Luke 252
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What are the Needs?
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Discovered needs must be translated into
Deacon Ministry
This is very Important!!
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Priority Needs for Deacon Ministry

• Which three needs would you consider as the more
  pressing needs in your church
• or community?

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Deacons Must Minister According To Their Passion
To Serve...
Delight yourself in the LORD And He will give
you the desires of your heart. Psalms 374
(NASB77)
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Deacon ministries converge from...
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Deacon's Are Spiritual Leaders
full of the Spirit and of wisdom Acts 63
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Laying hands on a man will not make him a leader
in the church
Laying on of Hands does not confer status but
authorizes formal ministry.
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Leadership

• The realm of influence where people become
  inspired to follow the leader in accomplishing
  specific tasks.

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Deacons Serving As Examples
In family life In personal morality In
faithfulness to the church In peacemaking In
service to others
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What Does A Bible Based Deacon Look Like?

• He feels called to the Biblical role of a
  deacon.
• He serves Christ as Lord.
• He fulfills Biblical qualifications of a deacon.
• He accomplishes ministry actions.
• He understands the mission of the church.
• He provides servant leadership.
• He grows in Christian traits.
• He rejoices in Fathers Well done!

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Developing Leaders ? Strengthening Families ?
Equipping Leaders for Ministry
The End