Tag: laity
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Faith and Business – Michael Jinkins
Huffington Post Business: Faith and Business – Michael Jinkins The church has a knack for depreciating the vocations of the laity. Well, perhaps not all vocations of the laity. The church routinely blesses vocations like the helping professions and education, especially if they are in the not-for-profit realm. But the church is ambivalent, at best,…
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Neither Clergy nor Laity– a NT Vision of Ministry
Ben Witherington: Neither Clergy nor Laity– a NT Vision of Ministry … The Greek word laos from which we get the term laity simply means the people of God. It is used this way over and over again in the NT, sometimes of Israel sometimes of those who are in Christ, but in neither case…
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Best of It: Vocation (Part 1)
[Series Index] Today we begin Chapter Seven in John Stackhouse’s Making the Best of It. This chapter deals with vocation. The word “vocation” comes from the Latin word vocare, and thus means “calling.” In history, however, this word has become bound up with the category of “work,” albeit in three different ways. (221) Work is…
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The Other Six Days: C3 – The Trinity and the Nature of the Church
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 3 – One God – One People One God – Three Persons …Like their God the people of God have ministry that is both creative (making) and restorative (mending); ministry is both unitive (connecting) and curative (correcting) – thus challenging the…
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The Other Six Days: C3 – Two Peoples or One?
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 3 – One God – One People It is widely acknowledged that pastors are facing an identity crisis, a crisis which may be deepened by the pastor-as-equipper emphasis now being promoted by many, including myself. Simply put, if there is no…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Emergence of the Clergy
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Emergence of Clergy Stevens identifies three influences that led to the emergence of clergy in the Church: Imitation of the secular structures of the Greek-Roman world, not unlike the professional-lay distinctions in the modern world.…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Ministry in the Old and New Covenants
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Ministry in the Old and New Covenants Stevens compares the differences between ministry in the Old Testament and ministry in the New Testament. Here are twelve shifts he identifies on page 33, with the OT…
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The Other Six Days: C2 – Laity and Clergy
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 2 – Reinventing Laity and Clergy Stevens partitions Chapter 2 into three sections: A People Without 'Laity' A People Without 'Clergy' The Emergence of the Clergy Stevens deconstructs these terms and explores how the laity/clergy framework emerged. I will briefly examine…
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The Other Six Days: C1 – Beyond Academic Theology
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 1 – Doing People Theology Beyond Academic Theology The first two sections of this chapter have called for us to move beyond clericalized theology and unapplied theology. In this last section of chapter 1, Stevens focuses on theology's captivity to academia.…
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The Other Six Days: C1 – Beyond Unapplied Theology
The Other Six Days Part One – A People Without 'Laity and Clergy': Chapter 1 – Doing People Theology Beyond Unapplied Theology “To most ordinary people formal academic theology seems abstracted from life, a matter lamented by Lesslie Newbigin who notes how the work of scholars makes it appear to the ordinary Christian that no…