http://reformeddeacon.com/authors/nathan-trice/ Recent content in Nathan Trice on Readings in the Reformed Diaconate Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us http://reformeddeacon.com/presbyterian-approach-to-mercy-ministry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/presbyterian-approach-to-mercy-ministry/ Excerpt But what about diaconal ministry? In what ways do the local deacons of your church benefit from ministering in a connectional church? Indeed, how do all members of the OPC benefit from being part of a denomination that pursues mercy ministry at every level of its Presbyterian structure? To many, perhaps, this is not as obvious, so perhaps a review of the work of mercy ministry at each level of the OPC is in order. http://reformeddeacon.com/if-you-are-a-deacon/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/if-you-are-a-deacon/ Excerpt Deacons are not to be “the servants” of the church in the sense that they personally do anything and everything that needs doing. They are servant-leaders in the church, who on the one hand have hearts willing to do the most menial of tasks for the sake of the body, yet who also have the authority to direct and oversee the involvement of the whole church in such tasks.