Topic: Polity

THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH

The Household of God

1 Timothy 3:8-13

INTRODUCTION:

In 1991, in the tiny town of New Berlin, in upstate NYC, a young physician named Bill Thomas performed an experiment. He was 31 years old and had just taken a new job as a medical director of Chase Memorial Nursing Home with 80 severely disabled elderly residents, many with Alzheimer’s and cognitive disabilities.

His aim, he said, was to attack what …

INTRODUCTION:

1983 – 43 people meet in the home of Jim & Ruth McDowall for the first meeting of what would become Lake Wylie Baptist Church. Jimmy Ezell is affirmed as the pastor. October 9^th, the church is constituted with 33 charter members.

1984 – Having rotated through member homes for worship, Lake Wylie Baptist find its first permanent home in the offices of The Realty Plantation in Tega Cay.

1984 – On …