Sentences with phrase «ordained clergy»

Our staff includes ordained clergy who are trained in pastoral counseling and work from a faith perspective to help you rediscover what God's plan is for your life.

Professional healthcare chaplains are either ordained clergy or recognized religious / spiritual leaders within their traditions.

The line of thought could easily be shifted from ordained clergy to congregational leaders.

For in this very text and a related place71 Clement goes on to say that though the Christian gnostic or seeker will conform to church life as it is ordered by the ordained clergy, spiritually, he is already on his way to becoming himself an angel, indeed, divine:

(In appealing to this angelic and gnostic tradition the monks will one day threaten the penitential functions of the ordained clergy.)

On the other hand, «professional» church leadership is not limited to the ordained clergy.

The bishops confirmed the faithful, ordained the clergy, and through various assistants, such as archdeacons, supervised clergy and laity.

Is an ethic of confidentiality an issue only for ordained clergy, or is it also an issue for all members who take a leadership role within the church?

For instance, how should the state treat those Quakers (Society of Friends) who have no ordained clergy?

There is no ordained clergy in Islam; they have as leaders men who have established their ability to guide by their learning and piety.

For many years the several churches of the Reformation tended to look with suspicion on this practice; more recently, some of them have recognized its value and have urged their ordained clergy to commend it to their people in whatever form may seem suitable.

Whether it be ordained clergy on the staff or teachers who embody the life and vision of a school, adults in schools are engaging in a tremendous, pioneering ministry.

I would describe it as a kind of unspoken contract whereby ordained clergy take leadership responsibility, and lay people defer to that arrangement, too often in a childlike way.

Dude has 166,279 cell groups, 172,346 deacons and 12,820 full - time staff (9,543 of which are ordained clergy) The numbers are beyond comprehension: average Sunday worship attendance is 552,364, a figure amassed in 11 services averaging over 50,000 each.

It is obvious to most of us older Catholic's that unless profound change occurs soon there will be no ordained clergy to lead at Sunday Mass in just a few years.

On the Protestant side, denominations need to urge their ordained clergy to forge greater connections to one another and to Catholic and Orthodox parishes.

Catholics, for example, believe that grace is primarily communicated in the sacraments administered by a sacramentally ordained clergy.

Ordained clergy preside at the sacraments and teach the lay leaders in order to equip the laity for their ministries.

As a working pastor in the south going up for her ordination endorsement this year there a moments when I think that I'll find such relief once I'm finished with my examinations... until I remember all the stories of the «stained glass ceiling» that I've heard from my fully ordained clergy - sisters... and I realize the hard work is just going to begin next year.

Not exact matches

If you are an RN in a hospital, you are probably not an ordained member of the clergy, but you perform spiritual work at your workplace.

One of the benefits of being an ordained woman is that there is never a line up for the washroom at our clergy gatherings

There are eight transgender clergy currently working for the Church of England, of whom six were ordained prior to transitioning.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

In the spring of 1985, the Board of Ordained Ministry decided that it was time to «take the temperature» of Minnesota United Methodist clergy and conduct an informal survey of the 400 pastors under appointment within the state.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

The February decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (EECMY) to terminate its 150 - year partnership with the Church of Sweden (CoS) and its 50 - year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) comes after the EECMY tried — and failed — to persuade the other two bodies to reverse recent decisions to ordain gay clergy and bless same - sex unions.

As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same - sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton's official and long - held positions.

Mihee Kim - Kort is an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) minister, mother of three, and prolific writer, whose books include Making Paper Cranes, Streams Run Uphill, and Yoked (a book co-authored with her husband about being a clergy couple).

Conventional wisdom assumes that the defining goal of a theological school is to educate clergy for the churches, or, more broadly, to educate leadership for the churches (whether it is lay or ordained leadership is probably irrelevant).

In the Reformed branch of the Reformation, responsibility was often assigned to the ordained minister or «teaching elder» of a congregation (hence in that tradition clergy were expected to be above all «learned ministers,» which meant that they had the resources of information and conceptual capacities that empowered them to fill this role).

In addition, the Catholic Church's handling of priest pedophilia was hindered by its long - standing labor shortage, a self - inflicted wound resulting from an unwillingness to ordain married and female clergy.

«I have to, on all consciousness in Christ caution against tribalism and an anti C of S rhetoric [that does have female leaders and is considering ordaining gay clergy] in the light of the agreement I have with the assertion you have made about the centrality of Christ, not church politics».

The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.

Clergy are forever confusing the role (ordained leader of the congregation / church) with their own personhood (child of God).

For, here he was, ordaining in the most direct way a clear and tangible reduction in the powers of bishops over their clergy: this was not going to go unchallenged.

Following the lead of Archbishop Lefebvre, the clergy of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)-- the ordained members of the Lefebvrist movement — have long claimed that what the Council taught on religious freedom is false because it contradicted settled Catholic teaching — a claim that has more to do with the agitations of post-1789 French politics than with a serious account of the history of Catholic church - state doctrine.

I am a scholar / practitioner who is often torn between my academic interest in ritual performance and my responsibilities as a member of the Christian clergy and am myself ordained to perform Christian rites and rituals.

Parents are not ORDAINED members of the clergy.

With the overabundance of clergy, with the church's current acceptance of the novelty without coming to terms with the reality, and with the likelihood of a backlash from the laity, we can expect to have a large group of angry ordained women in the near future.

However, the plans could prove to be decisive as the proposals would mean Methodist clergy who had not been ordained by a bishop would be entitled to hold Church of England services.

Because, more and more Churches in several denominations are ordaining more gay and lesbian clergy... heck ordaining women for that matter.

It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the Roman Catholic clergy actively seek to be ordained a bishop, and even regard their path towards this office as an ecclesiastical «career.»

So, are you saying the Churches that do, ordain gay / lesbian clergy,... and again (increasingly doing so) are * not * following God's will...?

Until now, AMiE's clergy have either come from the Church of England or have been ordained by overseas bishops.

Many Anglicans, however, who have insisted that clergy should be ordained by a bishop in the apostolic succession20 have not been willing to receive Communion from clergy not so ordained, although Anglicans now seem more relaxed about this.

Though a few of them are ordained ministers of churches and most consider themselves primarily preachers, their daily schedules are more comparable to those of executives of major corporations than of regular clergy.

During his lifetime the societies remained within Angelicanism, but to provide them with clergy to administer the Communion where clergy were not available, he, a presbyter and not a bishop, ordained some of his preachers.

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.

Also since there are churches, including Gay and Lesbian churches which are lead by ordained Gay and Lesbian clergy then are they also forcing anything on you or society?

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.