Comments on: The Danger of Disunity http://www.trinityhills.org.au/blog/2008/09/the-danger-of-disunity/ Views on life, faith and bits of the web, from 2 guys and their friends Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:54:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Clayton Fopp http://www.trinityhills.org.au/blog/2008/09/the-danger-of-disunity/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Clayton Fopp Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:08:54 +0000 http://www.trinityhills.org.au/blog/?p=49#comment-3 John, I agree completely with your appointments! You’ll hear on Sunday me saying almost exactly the same thing; I would have chosen 3 Greeks, 3 Hebraics and a Roman to keep the peace and break the tie! It seems the early church acknowledged that they had in fact been missing the Grecian widows, and recognised that the best people to ensure this didn’t happen in the future were Greeks. John,

I agree completely with your appointments! You’ll hear on Sunday me saying almost exactly the same thing; I would have chosen 3 Greeks, 3 Hebraics and a Roman to keep the peace and break the tie!

It seems the early church acknowledged that they had in fact been missing the Grecian widows, and recognised that the best people to ensure this didn’t happen in the future were Greeks.

]]> By: John Stafford http://www.trinityhills.org.au/blog/2008/09/the-danger-of-disunity/comment-page-1/#comment-2 John Stafford Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:06:28 +0000 http://www.trinityhills.org.au/blog/?p=49#comment-2 Thanks Clayton. It seems like another great pastoral sermon is in the making. Had I been given the reponsibility of appointing a team of deacons to minister to the needs of the church widows I would have selected 3 Greeks, 3 Hebrews and an impartial leader with the ability to exercise a casting vote. But the Grecian names suggest that the church appointed seven Hellenists to the committee. Are they just there to ensure that all the ham goes to the Greek widows or is there some deeper spiritual motive and trust here? Thanks Clayton. It seems like another great pastoral sermon is in the making.

Had I been given the reponsibility of appointing a team of deacons to minister to the needs of the church widows I would have selected 3 Greeks, 3 Hebrews and an impartial leader with the ability to exercise a casting vote.

But the Grecian names suggest that the church appointed seven Hellenists to the committee.

Are they just there to ensure that all the ham goes to the Greek widows or is there some deeper spiritual motive and trust here?

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