Christian ministry

Church leadership work

Christian ministry is religious service performed in the name of Christ—preaching, teaching, pastoral care, missionary work, or charitable outreach.

Ministry can be a vocation: She felt called to Christian ministry at sixteen.

It also describes the work itself: His ministry focuses on prison populations.

Those in ministry may be ordained clergy or lay volunteers serving their church or community.

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laying on hands · preacher · evangelist · altar call · volunteer · choir director · spiritual director · elder · intercessor · caregiver · bishop · chaplain · shepherd · relief worker · soup kitchen · prayer · witness · comforter

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sacred vs. secular vocation

Christian ministrycommercial enterprise

Profit-seeking organization

secular humanism · civil service · trade

religious tradition

Christian ministryrabbinate

Office of Jewish clergy

imam · rabbi · secular humanism · Buddhist monk · Shinto priest

service vs. self-interest

Christian ministrygreed

Excessive desire for wealth

self-aggrandizement · charlatanism · exploitation · false prophecy · profiteering

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