"It’s better for the church to have no official deacons than for the church to have unqualified, unspiritual, uninvested, uninterested deacons.

The role is too serious to be treated so lightly."

"When we are content, we are freed to seek God first, but when we are NOT content, we become enslaved to the warped desire to seek what we don’t need at the expense of what we can’t live without: our God!"

"If we’re going to be confident about ANYTHING we think we know, let it be Jesus Christ crucified for the sins of those who believe and turn to Him in faith and repentance."

"We are called to respond to other people as Christ responded to us in OUR stubbornness and sinfulness:

Gentle, not violent, not quarrelsome, hospitable..."

"This is part of following Jesus: Watch how you live among outsiders. Be holy and honorable in your conduct to strengthen your witness."

"We protect ourselves from the control of other substances or influences so that the Spirit will have more control over us."

"Our hope is that through our submission, our actions would be above reproach and a witness to God’s glory and the gospel."