There are two offices named in the New Testament. How do we distinguish between elders and deacons?
Qualifications for the offices of elders and deacons are described in 1 Timothy 3:1-13. There are five main similarities and three main differences.
You can watch a video of this talk and get more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website: https://fiec.org.uk/resources/distinguishing-elders-and-deacons.
This is the second talk of five from Trusted Hands: the post-conference event that followed the 2024 Leaders' Conference. It included five sessions with Brian Croft to help explore how to train and deploy volunteer leaders across the church.
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00:00 - Distinguishing elders and deacons
01:01 - Similarities between elders and deacons
08:19 - Differences between elders and deacons
20:50 - Q&A