deacons

Philip and His Four Virgin Daughters (Acts 21:1-16)

Paul stays at the home of “Philip, the evangelist”, who had had four virgin daughters. Philip was one of the seven appointed in Acts 6, considered the first “deacons” by some early Christians. In this lesson we discuss the role of deacons in the church, then turn to an important (but rarely addressed) topic: voluntary

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We Must Obey God Rather than Men; Selecting the Seven (Acts 5:29 and 6:1-7)

Should Christians follow the commands of religious or government leaders, when such commands contradict the words of God? We see the apostles' attitude in Acts 5: “We must obey God rather than men”. We consider how this principle was applied by David Lipscomb and other Christians in the Restoration Movement at the time of the

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