http://reformeddeacon.com/authors/r.c.-reed/ Recent content in R.C. Reed on Readings in the Reformed Diaconate Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacon/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://reformeddeacon.com/the-deacon/ Excerpt To avoid friction between members, to promote happy pastorates, and to develope the grace of liberality, nothing is more important than a good deacon, one who can be patient, who can smile at unreasonable people, and speak a soft word to turn away wrath, one who is willing to give time and take trouble on himself, and make himself “all things to all men” in order to promote the interests of his Master’s cause.