The Church Needs Good Deacons

The Church Needs Good Deacons - Washington Phillips

Oh Stephen he was a real good deacon

And he was a man that did love Christ

He was really full of the Holy Ghost

And he did very thing that's right

Right now we have some real good deacons

Then we have some deacons ain't right

All on earth some of them is fittin' for

Is to run around at night

A deacon he must be a clean man

And he must live a mighty smooth life

He must have his children under good control

And be the husband of one wife

But instead of being the deacon

That he really ought to be

He won't put up with one honest woman

He will try to live with two or three

A man like that he's in a bad fix

And he thinks he's doin' very well

And the devil is got him by the hand

Just a-leadin' him all in Hell

You read Paul's letter to Timothy

Those words doth profit very much

If a man knows not how to take care of his own household

Well he cannot care for God's church