Sentences with phrase «ordained ministry more»

Dennis Campbell, former dean of Duke University Divinity School, suggests that we must examine the vocation of ordained ministry more closely.

Not exact matches

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

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.

But without a specifically «ordained» or authorized ministry, composed of persons who have been «duly called, examined, and found qualified» to act for (but not instead of) that wider ministry of all Christian people, there would be lacking a sharp edge, a vivid and vital expression, of the more general mission and ministry.

Sensing a call to more formal ministry he was accepted by the Church of England for training and eventually ordained in 1993.

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 history of the Christian Church prophets have appeared from time to time, sometimes of course from the ordained ministry but more frequently without the benefit of such authorization to act on behalf of the community.

But what he is now doing is more for God, and himself, than if he had remained in the ordained ministry.