Questions & Answers
Questions 127 (COD Page 584)
How should a brother be condemned whose weakness is to take a place in church without being asked to do so?
Oh, my! Well, suffer with him, I guess. See?
How should a brother be condemned...He shouldn’t be condemned!... whose–whose weakness is to take place in a church without being asked to do so?
460 For instance, if he wanted to–to be a deacon. See? And he’s not asked to do so, yet he wants to be a deacon anyhow, see. Well, if a person’s like that, you know there’s a little something, you know, weak somewhere, anyhow, and so I’d just kind of deal with him in love.
461 And, course, you never want to–to do a thing like that unless you really know. Put your very best man you can on your board, you see, like that. Brother, don’t never get nothing in there that’s...Test that man, first. A deacon’s got more responsibility than the pastor has. He’s to be blameless, a deacon is. See?