The Apostles were tied up with charitable work, which interfered with their primary responsibility, which was "the breaking of the bread, and the prayers". The diaconate was established to take care of the charitable logistics so the Apostles could focus on their primary duties.
Blindly blathering quotes without full understanding of the situation wastes both your time and mine.
Blindly blathering quotes without full understanding of the situation wastes both your time and mine.
Well, ok. Thanks for bringing such "clarity" to the conversation.
You continue to confirm my observation of many of the Roman Catholics I've encountered on these threads.
Just where or where do you come up with this? The text one speaks of ministering the word of God, which other texts describe as preaching, and never dispensing food as spiritual nourishment, and the text in Acts 6 actually sets ministering the word of God in opposition to dispensing food.
Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. (Act 6:2-3)
And rather than pastors being charged to administer the Eucharist, and feed the flock thereby, this is nowhere what we see in the the only wholly inspired-of-God and substantive record of what the New Testament church believed (and how they understood the gospels), and nowhere in Acts thru Revelation is the means of obtaining spiritual life said or shown to be by literally physically consuming anything. In-stead, spiritual life is obtained by hearing the gospel and truly believing it. (Acts 2:38; 10:43-47; 15:7-9; Eph. 1:13)
And it is by preaching the word of grace that pastors foster growing in grace, by receiving "the sincere milk of the word," (1 Pt. 2:2) and ingesting its "meat," (1Co. 3:2; Heb. 5:12,13) being "nourished" (1Tim. 4:6) and built up by the word, (Acts 20:32) and with feeding the flock thereby being the primary active function of pastors. (Acts 20:32)
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:2)
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. (1 Corinthians 3:2)
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20:28)
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. (1 Timothy 4:6)
If you could have handled reading what I linked to then you could have known this.
Moreover, the daily "breaking of the bread" in Acts is never actually stated or described as being the Lord's supper, though it certainly would have included that, yet eating their meat with gladness and singleness of heart" (Acts 2:46) hardly sounds like any RC Mass I served at.
Can't have that!
CAll no man father.