Well, for our time of study and God's word this morning, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 3. 1 Timothy chapter 3. As we're doing a verse by verse study through the book of First Timothy, we come this morning to 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse 8, and my goal this morning is to do an overview of verses 8 through 13, and then next week we're gonna work our way a little more methodically, at least to the qualifications for deacons that we find in these verses. But if you want to give a title to the message today, it is the Service that blessing requires.
The service that blessing. requires. When I talk about service, I'm talking about the work that we do that addresses needs and our English word service is, merely a translation of the Greek word diakyos that is translated in the numeric standard as deacon, so we're talking about the service or the deaconing. that blessing requires, and the blessing that we're talking about is the blessing of people that God has brought and continues to bring to Cornerstone.
Now in our message last Sunday, we spent some time in the early chapters of the book of Acts. And I'm not going to review the points of the message, but I do want to review two big takeaways from the message last week. And the first is that people are a blessing. People are a blessing.
Anyone that God brings to Cornerstone, we need to view as a blessing in the sense that this person is an opportunity for us to minister the gospel and Jesus Christ to them. And if they already know the Lord, or they do come to know the Lord, they definitely are a blessing to us with the spiritual gifts that they bring to bear in enriching, this church body. So people are a blessing. All the people that are presently at Cornerstone....
