Informing the church body on social and political issues is a special task of the deacons, but I've never seen it performed. And I regret not doing it when personally I had the privilege and the responsibility of that office some years ago. The author should write again and create a fire under the diaconate to take up this task and to do it ethically well!
Posted in: The Church and the Exercise of Non-Ecclesiastical Power
Informing the church body on social and political issues is a special task of the deacons, but I've never seen it performed. And I regret not doing it when personally I had the privilege and the responsibility of that office some years ago. The author should write again and create a fire under the diaconate to take up this task and to do it ethically well!
Dick Berends
Holt, MI