On the Benefits of a Well Functioning Diaconate to the Minister
John Lorimer on how deacons support the minister.
By Tim Hopper
1-min read
He feels, that amid all his own difficulties and discouragements, he is not standing alone—that other are alive to his circumstances, and sympathise with him, and are forward to aid him—and that he can have their advice and cooperation in many matters, which are otherwise fitted to distract and to burden.
— John Lorimer, The Deaconship (1842)