1 Timothy 3:10

The deacon is simply a ministering servant, occupied particularly with the care of temporal arrangements and necessities in connection with the local assembly. In Acts 6 there were seven of these appointed to wait on tables. In this case the brethren were told to look out from among themselves seven men of honest report, and these were appointed. The apostles left the assembly free to choose these men. This was not so as to elders, who were rather appointed by apostles or by one who had been specifically delegated by an apostle.

Testing them first might show that they are unfit for the work. Even among believers there are many who cannot carry a little short-lived authority. Whatever lifts such a man in the eyes of others soon drags him down morally. To walk blamelessly in the smallest of these new duties was strong evidence that he was fit to serve in all of them.

The modern deacon in the larger and national churches looks nothing like this, and the office has become an empty form. It is only a training stage for the so-called elders who make up the body of the clergy. In earlier days no inexperienced man should have held such a place. Even though the work was about outward things, they still had to be proved first.

Again, these instructions imply that the deacon is not a young man. He is married, he has children, and so he is a man with experience.

The deacons, too, were to be men who had been tested and had stood the test. They would be trusted with things that clearly carry the power to tempt, even among Christians. They are to be proved first, and then to serve as men without blame who have proved themselves.

ἀνέγκλητος (from α, negative, and ἐγκαλέω, "to accuse"), besides Colossians 1:22 mentioned above, occurs only in 1 Timothy 3:10 and Titus 1:6-7, where elders and deacons should be unimpeachable; and in 1 Corinthians 1:8, where the Lord Jesus will confirm the saints unimpeachable in His own day. There will be no room for any possible accusation.

The great thing for believers to do now is to keep closely to the word, to look for the qualifications it requires for that place in those around them, and, where those qualities are found, to thankfully acknowledge them... If the gathered believers find such qualifications among them, they should gladly hand the money matters of the assembly to such men. Those men would then be responsible for the special needs of the poor saints in that place.