Exilic Diaconate Nomination Resources

This page is meant to help Exilic members be as informed as possible when submitting nominations.

We're seeking faithful servants to join our Diaconate in stewarding mercy and compassion within our Exilic community. If you are an Exilic member and know someone who exemplifies Christ-like service, demonstrates spiritual maturity, and has a heart for caring for our church family, we'd love to hear from you! Those with three nominations will be carefully reviewed according to biblical qualifications (1 Timothy 3:8-13). Submit your nominations by February 28.

Thank you in advance to all those who prayerfully submit nominations for our diaconate. Learn more about our current Diaconate.

Mission

Steward mercy and compassion to meet the practical needs of those at Exilic.

Vision

Model Christ, our great Deacon, through Sympathy and Service.

For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who deacons? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who deacons. - Luke 22:27

Jesus is our true deacon, one who humbled himself to serve others. We too, want to deacon humbly and faithfully at Exilic Church.

  1. “Deacons” - Matt Smethurst

  2. Book of Church Order (BCO) Chapter 7 & 9

  3. Rev. Dr. Aaron Chung’s Sermon: “Deacons: Servant Leaders” (Apple podcast)

  4. Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Women Serving in the Ministry of the Church to the Forty-fifth General Assembly of the PCA

  5. Thomas Schreiner FOR Women Deacons

  6. Guy Waters AGAINST Women Deacons

  7. Tim Keller FOR Commissioning Women to Deaconing Work

  8. Ligon Duncan FOR Current PCA Policy on Women Deacons

  9. Ligon Duncan and Tim Keller Discussed Women and the Diaconate at the 2009 PCA General Assembly

  10. Kevin DeYoung, “Men and Women in the Church”

  11. Isaac Adams, "What's the Difference Between Elders and Deacons?"

Further reading material