Sentences with phrase «about ordained ministry»

The positive effects most regularly mentioned in interviews and questionnaires refer to participants» raised morale and self - esteem, increased enthusiasm about ordained ministry, and renewed commitment to their current jobs.

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What does its popularity say about the dynamics and issues of ordained ministry?

It will be about God and his Church; to be called to serve them in love and humility through ordained ministry is a privilege beyond imagination for a Christian, and I hope and pray that my future service to all God's people will reflect that trust.

What r u complaining about, JESUS never got paid 4 his ministry, he got killed 4 it, I do not beleive that man should be ordaining pastors, only GOD can.

Similarly, students in master of divinity and other professional programs are usually asked about vocational goals; strong interest in ordained ministry is, of course, welcome, but fewer institutions now than in the past require that all students in ministry programs be sponsored or approved by ordaining bodies.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

The difference you ask about is probably better understood as between lay people's ministry and ordained ministry, rather than between male and female.

I was about to be ordained into the ministry.

Also involved in the arguments about specialized ministries today is how specialized workers in the employ of churches and church organizations, when they are not ordained ministers, shall be related to the churches.

We should, therefore, be able to analyze the ordained ministry and its functions without having to nod every three minutes to Jerusalem or Mecca about the «layman.»

It asks finally: So what does that say about ministry in the light of what the ordained minister actually does?

The discussion that follows is about the biblical bases and the historical development of the ordained ministry, which means not special privilege but particular responsibility.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

One of the factors contributing to disease in the life of many congregations is our confusion about the respective roles and functions of ordained and lay Christians, all of whom have been called to ministry.