Deacons in Today's Black Baptist Church - Paperback

by Marvin McMickle (Author), Julius R. Scruggs (Foreword by)

What does it mean to be a deacon in today's black Baptist church?Respected author and pastor Rev. Dr. Marvin McMickle explores the scriptural basis and historical context for the deacon ministry in the black Baptist church, and addresses the practical issues related to this ministry today: What personal qualities should a candidate for deacon possess?What does the ministry of deacons entail?What relationship should exist between the pastor and deacons?What about training, term of service (if any), and women deacons?Models of contemporary deacon ministry, illustrated by case studies, provide a twenty-first century look at this first century ministry.

Author Biography

One of the most respected preachers in the nation, Marvin A. McMickle, DMin, PhD, served as pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio for nearly twenty-five years before becoming president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York in January 2012. No stranger to academia, McMickle previously served as professor of homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary and in 2009, spent a semester as a visiting professor at Yale University Divinity School. He also taught at Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State, Princeton and Fordham universities. A prolific author, McMickle has more than a dozen books to his credit, including resources on preaching, ministry, and African American history.