Good books have been written
about the ministry in all these categories, and my discussion is attentive to them.
It's also a good idea to
think about ministry opportunities, opportunities for reaching out to your community.
Much of what I
know about ministry comes from friends who are gifted pastors and from my students.
One
thing about ministry in combat zones is that usually we can't stop the combat — we can't fix their biggest need, which is to be secure.
If Christian religious organizations really
care about ministry, they will express their priorities in financial and other concrete forms.
The appalling
fact about ministry in today's inner city is that there are so many targets one must try to hit all at once.
I met a man on match a few years ago who invited me out for lunch, and then spent the entire time
talking about a ministry that he was involved in.
In the midst of confusion
about the ministry of all Christians it may seem reactionary to claim that the role of a pastor is to give spiritual direction to a congregation.
The franchisor failed to provide adequate disclosure document because it did not disclose
information about ministry deficiencies concerning the daycare centre's operations.
Thanks for the kind things you have
said about the ministry of Calvary Chapel, in the last [part] you mention Calvary as my ministry.
What is known
about the ministry during the period of the first century must largely be inferred from the letters of Paul and the Pastoral Epistles.
Another kind of
position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.
Sam did without a car, too, and the unassuming, almost angelic way he ordered his life taught me a
lot about ministry.
Joel and Kathryn Kuhlmann respond to GFI Ezzo attacked this couple whose pastor had told them to send their questions
about the ministry directly to GFI.
He made his
life about ministry and spreading the good news because I think he saw and experienced so much and may have done some things himself that didn't sit right in his heart.
A sense of
excitement about ministry, the way discussions of practice find their way into other classes, the degree to which other courses are newly sensitive to context, the increasing ability of students to think theologically — all these tell us that something good is under way, as does the sometimes profound sense of collegiality and support experienced in the reflection seminars.
Certainly the attempt to equate pastoral care with the total work of ministry is unsatisfactory; for that simply uses an uncriticized metaphor as an imperialistic
declaration about the ministry as a whole, and thus concrete meaning is lost from the metaphor.
What our functional images point to is a unified
attitude about ministry — complex enough to take various needs and functions and situations as they come, but with no sense of inherent contradiction among them.