Sentences with phrase «ordained ministry as»

Instead of encouraging their most gifted and talented young people to consider ordained ministry as a vocation, congregations began directing their young people toward business, law or medicine.

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«Through the ordained ministry, especially that of bishops and priests, the presence of Christ as head of the Church is made visible in the midst of the community of believers.

It's a sad goodbye to Katie as she's off to vicar factory, but she joins the team one last time to discuss our Sep cover feature, marking the 100th anniversary of the first woman to be ordained to ministry in a UK denomination.

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.

Now, for the first time, nine men will be ordained together by an English Bishop who can give them regular oversight as they begin their ministries.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

But there are deeper reasons as well, reasons more directly related to the circumstances of ordained ministry.

Deacons are ordained to the «ministry» as distinct from the «priesthood» (CCC § 1569), but their office, exercised without interruption since apostolic times, has been recognized as belonging to «major orders» since the twelfth century.

This weakened the pool of people considering ordained ministry, as well as those who entered.

And as the situation stands at present, the line of division is not between those who are ordained to the ministry and those who are not.

But no one can yet know what direction this movement should take so far as the ordained ministry is concerned.

But now, as an Anglican woman, not only could I enrol on any course for missionary, lay or ordained ministry, I could also set my sights on becoming a bishop.

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

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.

I've been in full time ministry, got fired, struggled for decades with my self - identity as a construction worker to raise a family, and ended up joining a Church where I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting ordained but still held out hope, but it has never happened after 14 years now.

As the first woman to be ordained by a UK denomination, Constance (pictured, right) is viewed as a brave forerunner by advocates for women in ministrAs the first woman to be ordained by a UK denomination, Constance (pictured, right) is viewed as a brave forerunner by advocates for women in ministras a brave forerunner by advocates for women in ministry.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

The difference you ask about is probably better understood as between lay people's ministry and ordained ministry, rather than between male and female.

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.

When the repentant sinner is a priest, however, it is a separate, prudential question whether he should be allowed to continue in ministry, just as it is a prudential question whether a good man seeking ordination ought to be ordained in the first place.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.

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.

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.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

That would come as a surprise to millions of women who have heeded GOD's calling on their lives to ordained ministry.

A respected scientist who sees his discipline as a springboard to the ordained ministry must surely command interest amongst all contemporary believers.

John Wesley had asserted his rights as a presbyter to ordain men for a, ministry in America, thereby denying the necessity of ordination by bishops alone.

We are ordained to the ministry of the Church — the «sacred ministry,» as it is called; but that ordination of ours does not give us any personal rights or privileges which come to us through some peculiar claim of our own.

Rejecting, therefore, the Roman Catholic sacrament of ordination as an induction into the status and order of the priesthood, he insisted that no one should be ordained to the ministry unless he had a call from a congregation.

Carole graduated from Luther Northwestern Seminary in St. Paul in 1993 and served in youth and family ministry for 22 years, 15 of those years as an ordained minister.

Tony Watkins is an ordained pastor with theological training whose ministry is providing counseling as a licensed Marriage and Family therapist.