Sentences with phrase «ministry as a profession»

Does a decline in the social status of the ministry as a profession weaken recruitment?

Despite our tendency to view ministry as a profession, and the work of the Gospel as worthy of the sacrifice of marriages and attendance at school concerts, our value to God is not buried in our workhorse mentality.

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bizarrely (or not, since many teachers see teaching as a kind of ministry) this applies almost completely to myself as a disillusioned teacher whose next step is leaving the profession.

Newman's ministry as a priest was not seen as a profession but as an apostolate.

H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

The ministry as a «profession» rather than a calling has encouraged the rush toward ecclesiastical preferment, with clergy jostling one another like bumper cars in order to secure the most prestigious placements.

Historically, however, the idea of the ministry as a middle - class, white - collar profession is more the exception than the rule for most American denominations, and in many traditions today it is still a relatively unfamiliar concept.

Also, a criminal breach of trust — which is the nature of the offense — warrants removal from ministry just as it does in the professions of law and medicine.

Schleiermacher had defined law, medicine, and ministry as «professions» by reference to the leadership each gives to practices that are indispensable to the well - being of society as a whole.

As members of one of the oldest counseling, caring professions, clergymen can affirm their heritage by increased involvement in mental - spiritual health ministries within both religious and wider communities.

Craft trades and ministries point toward a middle way that, though less prestigious than medicine, could actually enhance the profession by better reflecting the work teachers do instead of arrogating to itself a status that strikes many noneducators as presumptuous and self - serving.