Dan,

        DG, "Ah, but can we prove these were 
deacons? :-)"

        Were the elected "officers" of the congregation
in Acts 6 deacons?  If they were, then are the
"officers" in modern-day Baptist churches deacons?

                                                Jim
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> >Dear Julian
> >I first need to ascertain what it is that you mean by the word 
> Deacon.
> >
> >1. Is it the position of Deacon?
> >2. Is it the Baptist usage as a Deacon being a Church leader?
> >3. Is it simply a servant - one who waits on tables?
> >
> >John it is the official position of a deacon as exemplified by the 
> seven who were chosen to wait on the material needs in the early 
> church and the qualifications for which we read of in Timothy and 
> Titus.
> >Julian
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> >Sincerly, Julian
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