1st Timothy 3:8-13

• How is a deacon candidate tested? 
• Will other Christians be tested? Or only deacon candidates? 
• How can a person be tested yet found blameless? 
• What is it about deacons that enable them to hold the mystery of the faith in good 
conscience?   Why is this standard, which seems like it ought to apply to all believers, 
tucked right in here in the standards for deacons? 
• Why are there standards for deacon’s wives and about deacon’s children?