Setting: Deacon and Deaconess Training
Length: 1:07:14

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Title: Diaconal Training Phase 1
Main Scripture: Acts 6:1-7
Main Topics: serving, mercy, deacons, deaconess, ministry

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“The Primary Task”

* create your own folder and collect all the notes from 2 training times (the joint board mtg. and occasional special mtgs for training like today)

Introduction

-Diaconal ministry = both deacons and deaconesses

3 Phases of Diaconal Ministry (henceforth DM)

Phase 1:  The Primary Task
Phase 2:  Recruiting and Development
Phase 3:  The Character of the Officer

 

The ____________ of the DM
          
Acts 6:1-7
1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
2 So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said, "It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables.
3 Brothers, choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to them
4 and will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word."
5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
6 They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

            DM originated from an __________ need

            Actual needs, then, led to the creation of  __________

            Priorities, then, led to the creation of  __________ ministry

            Team ministry is based on two qualities

1. The value of ministry is the  __________

   1 Cor.3:5-7
   Col.3:22-24                

                        2.   The function of ministry is  __________

The __________ of the DM

            The primary task:  __________

                        -general comments

                        -specific help

            The secondary tasks:  __________ and  __________

The  __________ throughout the History of DM

            The  __________ of the secondary task

            The  __________ of focus on the primary task

The goal is  __________ the existing work

Balance the work via  __________ assignments

Balance the work via strengthening the connection with __________ mercy ministries

Balance the work via  __________

* we must recruit because ministry is always an  _________ member ministry

-part of ordained ministry work is to __________ serving opportunities

By balancing the work, you achieve a greater  _________to God Himself, because…

1. A ministry of mercy  __________ God Himself

Luke 6:36 Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Matthew 18  The parable of the unmerciful servant
            -we ought to be merciful to other as God has been merciful to us

2.  A ministry of mercy is  __________  God Himself

Proverbs 19:17 He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD…
                -which is amplified in Matthew 25:31-46  “The sheep and the goats”

Vs.40 “The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

Application Time:  separate into boards
* presentation afterwards

Open in prayer

Discuss the state of the situation in the light of the “primary task”
            -is your board balanced?

            -what are the challenges to creating a balance?

            -are their mercy opportunities that are not being done?

The Goal is balancing the existing work

Balance the work via committee assignments
         * focus on mercy opportunities FIRST

            -may require adjustments in policies
                        -discuss them

            -then focus on the administrative work

Balance the work via strengthening the connection with existing mercy ministries
            -there are existing mercy ministries that operate with little or no diaconal
            involvement

            -what are they?

            -discuss how a connection can be made
Balance the work via recruiting
             * focus on mercy opportunities FIRST
           
-discuss the new project:  “My Home Church”

Close in prayer
Make presentation from your board:  by the president

Closing thoughts

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