Making sure you get the right deacon (Bulldog for March)
Many years ago, it became public at church that one deacon (now in glory!) had nominated an old friend for the next elections to the diaconate. The nominee was a nice enough fellow, and had done lots of repair work for the church, but he was never at the prayer meeting, and I seriously doubted his ability to lead us in prayer helpfully at the Lord's Table.
Leith Samuel
(The situation is different now. A name has to be approved by either the church secretary or the pastor before the owner of it can be put to the church for voting on.) Faced then with what to me was no small problem, I said nothing to the church secretary or even to my wife, but waited on the Lord for light.
