Worship services are like fitness programs. Fitness programs are great ways for toning up, but they are no substitute for life. What we learn and practice here Sunday after Sunday will over time increase our awareness of God in all places and situations, not just in beautiful places but in hurtful places as well. Every time we eat and drink we are feeding on the presence of God and the more we include the least likely at our own table the nearer that presence is felt. Elders uphold the orthodoxy of the church.
Deacons have a different duty.
On behalf of the congregation, Deacons preserve and promote orthopraxy which means right living , or right practice . Jesus said, by this will all people know you are my disciples, if you love one another . Not, if you think rightly, but rather if you live rightly. Love your neighbor as you love yourself . In every era the church must define love and discover just who its neighbors are.