Sentences with phrase «called ordained ministers»

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The greater church confirmed that inward call when I was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament.

What troubles me about the situation is not what happens to this full - time teacher, but the inferiority complex which his training and his (collective) sense of a «higher» calling give to ordained ministers.

Our Maranatha congregation has just called a new pastor, whose wife also will be an ordained minister.

In the Catholic tradition an ordained person is commonly known as a priest; in the Reformed communions he or she is called an elder or presbyter; in all Christian thought he or she has been known as a minister, with duties that are distinctively his or hers through having been «set apart» to act representatively for the wider ministry of all Christian people.

p.s. southern baptist ministers must ascribe to something called a «statement of faith» in order to be ordained as Dr King was: http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp

Within such an approach, several themes would play especially important roles: pastoral care as the ministry of the whole congregation in the world; the identity of the ordained minister in his or her pastoral office as both enabler and representative of the calling of all Christians to minister in the world; and a threefold focus of pastoral care, including the person or persons in need, the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith of the Christian church as represented in Scripture and tradition.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

It calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth, including, in my mind, the model of the ordained minister or priest, who inevitably stands in the same relationship to the laity as does the divine image of God in Jesus to the followers of God.

Feminine theology calls for an end to all authoritarian models of truth — including the model of the ordained minister or priest, for «ordination» means accepting the authority of the traditional Christian framework and being licensed to carry on that tradition.

In Zürich, the early practice of calling and ordaining a minister, according to an Order for Preachers written by Leo Jud and Henry Bullinger, was as follows: A commission of examiners consisting of two ministers, two members of the City Council, and two laymen experienced in the reading of the Bible, examined the candidates who either had been proposed or had applied to be called to a vacant ministerial office.

In Wittenberg and the electorate of Saxony, the method of calling and ordaining a minister remained fluid until about 1535.

Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant, who was ordained himself 20 years ago, called for a moratorium on any more male bishops, saying: «No nomination without feminisation.»

The staunch social conservative and ordained Southern Baptist minister made the eyebrow - raising remarks on Thursday during a conference call organized by the conservative Family Research Council.

Mr. Díaz's father, an ordained minister born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, was elected to State Senate in 2002 after a short stint in the Council — but, for two decades before that, Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. was an incessant nuisance to the Bronx political machine, a «gadfly,» as the borough president called him.

Horrace Burges, as a landscape architect, is no stranger to building structures that compliment their setting so well — but he's also an ordained minister, which means he's no stranger to the often curious calls of divine inspiration which led him to build the giant tree house.