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Ministerial Responsibilities and Ethics

The document discusses the differences between being a minister as a vocation versus a career or profession. It argues that a minister's role is to serve God and their congregation through their spiritual duties, not to pursue personal aims. While ministry is not strictly a profession, there are professional standards that apply such as being well-educated, autonomous, and providing an essential social service to the community according to ethical guidelines.

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Ministerial Responsibilities and Ethics

The document discusses the differences between being a minister as a vocation versus a career or profession. It argues that a minister's role is to serve God and their congregation through their spiritual duties, not to pursue personal aims. While ministry is not strictly a profession, there are professional standards that apply such as being well-educated, autonomous, and providing an essential social service to the community according to ethical guidelines.

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BEING A PROFESSION

Atthe same time, the minister


usually fulfills this calling
through service to a
congregation of Gods people.
These people pay the salary of
the church leader and expects
some type of ministerial
service in return.
1 Peter 5:2-3
15

The ministers devotion to


God should not be an excuse
for avoiding pastoral duties.
Ministry is both a privilege
and responsibility.
16

VOCATION

A commitment to
God and neighbour
17
CAREER
A means to pursue ones own
private aims and purposes.

A career person asks;


What do I want to be, and
where do I want to go? (Jonah)
18
CAREER
Career is more selfish than
selfless.

The minister fulfills a call not


just a career.
PROFESSION 19
Historically, the word profess
meant to testify on behalf of
or to stand for something.

Being a professional person


therefore implied knowledge
and moral responsibility.
20
The professional knows
something that will benefit
the wider community, and
he or she has a
responsibility to use that
knowledge to serve the
wider human community.
21
The word professional
has been considered to
mean a secular title
reserved for reverends
who are more concerned
with status and prestige
than spiritual ministry.
22
However, the very opposite
should be true.

A minister is professional if
his ministry is truly biblical
and Christian.
DEFINITION
A broadly educated person with
highly developed skills and
knowledge who works
autonomously under the discipline
of an ethic developed and
enforced by peers, who renders a
social service that is essential and
unique, and who makes complex
judgments involving potentially
dangerous service.
A broadly educated person with
highly developed skills and
knowledge who works
autonomously under the
discipline of an ethic developed
and enforced by peers, who
renders a social service that is
essential and unique, and who
makes complex judgments
involving potentially dangerous
service.
26
A professional is more
concerned with
communal interest than
with services rendered
with financial rewards.
27
Though the ministry is not a
profession in a worldly
sense, there are some
standards of professional
practice that apply to the
Christian ministry.

These include the following:

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