The Lord's Day Morning August 15, 2004 I Timothy 3:8-13 “What God Wants in Deacons” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Timothy, chapter three. We have been working our way through the Pastoral Epistles: First and Second Timothy, and Titus. We've just been in the book of First Timothy for the last few weeks, and last week we were looking at I Timothy 3:1-7, in which Paul gives us instructions for the qualifications for elders in the local congregation. Over and over, we've said that Paul, writing to these congregations in Asia Minor (what we would call modern-day Turkey) almost two thousand years ago, wasn't just giving them wise advice and counsel for a local congregation. He was giving them God's vision for…