BertMulder
Puritan Board Junior
In some regions of the world there is no diaconate.
That is a failing of the church in those cases, and again, lack of our love to God, and our neighbor to ignore His command to care for the poor through the diaconate. God does not require sacrifice, or labour. God requires from us obedience. And see, as we read in Malachi, if He will not fill our barns with plenty, so that they cannot even contain it...