{"id":4627,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/willing-waiters\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:41","slug":"willing-waiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/willing-waiters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Willing Waiters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Acts series.   Choosing of Deacons.              Acts 6:1-7<br \/>\n                                ===============<br \/>\n                                WILLING WAITERS<br \/>\n                                ===============<br \/>\n     I. How do you handle people-problems?<\/p>\n<p>    II. Widows and welfare.<br \/>\n         A. The early Christians took care of its own.                  6:1<br \/>\n         B. Tensions within the church.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Addressing the problem.<br \/>\n         A. The apostles&#8217; fear.                                         6:2<br \/>\n         B. By doing something good, they might neglect something better.<br \/>\n         C. The apostles&#8217; decision.                                     6:3<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Novel innovation.<br \/>\n         A. Instead of passing blame, they delegated responsibility.    6:3<br \/>\n         B. First requirement of deacons was spirituality.              6:3<\/p>\n<p>     V. What can we do with this?<br \/>\n         A. Human needs are still with us.<br \/>\n         B. Workers must be spiritual if ministry is to get done.<br \/>\n         C. We need to safeguard the ministry of prayer and preaching.<br \/>\n         D. The church needs to be innovative.<\/p>\n<p>    VI. Are you spiritually equipped to serve?<br \/>\n                                                                         #2529<\/p>\n<p> *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon in Acts series. Choosing of Deacons. Acts 6:1-7 =============== WILLING WAITERS =============== I. How do you handle people-problems? II. Widows and welfare. A. The early Christians took care of its own. 6:1 B. Tensions within the church. III. Addressing the problem. A. The apostles&#8217; fear. 6:2 B. By doing something good, they might neglect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4026,404,402,1406],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}