Sentences with phrase «ordained as ministers»

Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, self - avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.

Therefore self - avowed PRACTICING homosexuals are not to be certified as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.»

Among such teachers who meet all qualifications, there is a growing number who do not wish to be ordained as ministers.

The issue of women in ministry had first been raised mainly but not solely in North America in the early «70s, with questions concerning whether women could be ordained as ministers or elders.

I was once ordained as a minister of the gospel and a bible teacher.

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

I've been ordained as a minister for over 25 years.

Before being involved with Imago, he was ordained as minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.

Not exact matches

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on the Isle of Skye.

It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

An ordained United Methodist pastor, she is a member of the Wisconsin Annual Conference and has served both in local churches and as a campus minister.

As Romans 13 instructs, the powers that be are ordained of God, rulers are ministers of God, and those who resist those rulers resist the ordinance of God.

After all, as my brother the ordained minister once told me, «Its a great vocation for a vacation».

And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their task.

Possibly the «weak» would not go so far as to assert that elements consecrated by an ordained priest or minister are necessary for salvation.

On the one hand, they served as ordained ministers subject to the authority of the church; on the other hand, they played an increasingly active role as leaders of a popular movement.

Fry Brown, who is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church, said those numbers seem to be «holding,» even as the role of the black church is changing.

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

Ordained ministering is in no way separate from the wider ministry of Christian people; it is «distinct» from that wider ministry, in that it functions for as it also represents the service which is proper to all who belong to the Church.

As a graduate in religious studies and ordained minister, the bias toward the universal Christian church is not without cause.

Denominational statistics show that there are twice as many ordained ministers as there are pastoral positions to fill.

The son of a strict Calvinist preacher, Putnam was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1868, before eventually becoming a freethinking lecturer and author of such pamphlets as Religion a Curse, Religion a Disease, Religion a Lie.

An ordained Baptist minister, he served as Middle East director for the National Council of Churches from 1983 to 1990.

As «ministry» has become increasingly the task of all Christians, Trotter explores why the church ordains ministers, and how this relates to the unity of all Christians.

His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and at a local department store, S. Klein... -

As Christian churches developed in America — and many more kinds of them with the establishment first of religious toleration and then of religious freedom — the ordained minister tended to become more dependent on his relations with his local congregation than was true in Britain or on the Continent.

was ordained by God and given the «sword» to punish the evil and promote the good in society as His Minister of Justice (Rom.

Today, the Saturday Gathering officially operates as an ecumenical «Fresh Expression», which Maslen has oversight of as part of her role as an ordained Anglican minister.

Likewise, these associations have begun to recognize that no matter how good a counselor one may be, it is the ordaining body that must determine one's legitimacy as a minister of that church in a particular setting.

The decision to ordain women as ministers was made after years of study and discussion, and decades of experience with women deacons and elders.

Just so long as she doesn't become an Ordained Minister.

The unhappy aspect about the present ordained breast - beating is that this point is used, surreptitiously, as if it let ordained ministers off the hook about «supervising» what is going on in the impact of the church upon the world.

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.

She was ordained in 2001 in the capital and served her curacy in St Saviour's Battersea Fields, initially as a self - supporting minister, before leaving her Government post in 2004.

It was under this Statement, under all sixteen items of the Statement, that I was ordained in 1961 as a minister of the AG.

Both Billy Graham and Rick Warren are ordained ministers in the Southern Baptist Convention, but their ecumenical import and stature as worldwide ambassadors for Christ have far exceeded their early success as a brash youth evangelist and a colorful church planter.

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 recognition of his ecumenical work with the Eastern Orthodox Church based on his common love and study of the Alexandrian Fathers Saints Athanasius and Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Nicholas VI, took the highly unusual step of bestowing upon Torrance, an ordained minister of the Church of Scotland, the title of honorary protopresbyter, while Torrance was in Addis Ababa during his trip to Ethiopia as a guest of the Orthodox Church in 1973.

When John Wesley traveled all over England, declaring the gospel of Christ in the fields and on the village commons, in the streets of large towns and in public places in the countryside, he was still acting as an ordained minister of the Church and he was still preaching in the Church — although the authorities of the Established Church of England, regrettably, did not seem willing to recognize what should have been a patent and wonderful fact.

As an ordained minister of 44 years in the United Church of Christ, I have performed hundreds of weddings and have reached the same conclusion as Mr. RampelAs an ordained minister of 44 years in the United Church of Christ, I have performed hundreds of weddings and have reached the same conclusion as Mr. Rampelas Mr. Rampell.

As an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada for 15 years I have a deep rooted understanding of the living power of W / word to shape meaning and our sense of self and our place in the world.

Since more and more religious groups are accepting of and even ordaining gays and lesbians as ministers or rabbis, it contradicts any notion that «god» hates queer folks and created them as something less than straight people.

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.