Sentences with phrase «ordained ministers of»

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.

Dr. Gilpin, an assistant professor of church history at the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

But this degree of obligation does not absolve the ordained minister of special theological obligations.

The Rev. Dr. Rudolf von Sinner is an ordained minister of the Evangelical - Reformed Church of the Canton of Basle - City (Switzerland) and is Ecumenical Relations Officer for the Ecumenical Coordination of Service, in Salvador / Bahia.

Ms. Minter, an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, is director of parish programs for the Shenandoah and Catoctin Associations of the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ.

The ordained minister of the congregation, Sarah Peters, also filled linkage roles, especially priestly functions that presented and explained the symbols of the faith.

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. Rampell.

She is an ordained minister of World Congregational Fellowship Church and affiliated with the International Metaphysical Ministry.

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Myles Munroe was a Bahamian Christian evangelist, ordained a Pentecostal minister, public speaker, and author who was the founder of Bahamas Faith Ministries International.

I hear from my minister (pastor) that the number of ordained ministers than are men and that are women in C of S is about 50/50.

Timothy George, an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention, is dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and a member of the First Things editorial board.

In particular, the movement of some LWF churches to break with the Church's historic understanding of Scripture and natural law by blessing same - sex marriages and ordaining homosexual ministers has led to division within the Lutheran World Federation and strained relations with ecumenical partners.

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.

An ethicist and theologian by background, Moore is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of several books including Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel.

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

Ironically, the session later removed most of the functional distinctions between ordained and licensed 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.

An ordained minister must involved any official charge of heresy.

An ordained Congregational minister, he received his Ph. D. from the University of Manchester.

He concludes that the reasons for priestsbeing required to give up all conjugal relations with their wives on being ordained was not the «cultural purity of the minister of the altar, but rather the efficacy of mediatory prayer by the sacred minister».

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.

Adjunct Professor, School of Theology, Columbus, Georgia, Florida Christian College, Guest Lecturer, 10 Years a Teacher of Evolution, 1 1/2 Years a Theistic Evolutionist, 38 Years a Biblical Scientific Creationist Ordained Minister.

i was «in» the church for almost my entire life and an ordained minister for 25 of those.

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).

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.

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

In January 2014, a 25 - year - old Rev Michael Mair became the youngest ordained minister in the Church of Scotland.

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).

The Universalists hold the honor of having ordained the first U.S. woman minister (1863).

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.

It is certainly possible and, for the particular man, necessary that he take all the training to be a teacher of theology or religion without necessarily becoming an ordained minister.

The author sees the nature of the ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function with competent professional leadership.

An image could have been constructed in which the ordained minister is shown in a private residence, seated beside the father, with the rest of the family grouped around.

He is coordinator of Iliff's Justice and Peace Studies Program and is an ordained Presbyterian minister.

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.

In the interim period most of these ordained minister - administrator - chaplains have been replaced, on the one side, by trained hospital administrators, and on the other side by trained chaplains.

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.

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

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.

Jesus here is a «faithful minister of God's word and sacraments,» in the words of an Anglican prayer for ordained ministers.

An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.

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.

I would have liked to read more on the importance of team ministry and of collaboration between ordained ministers and those serving God in other walks of life.

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.