Thursday, August 10, 2006
Question of the Day
What qualities or experiences would you consider to be essential prerequisites for sitting on your Conference's Board of Ordained Ministry?
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4 comments:
Those who serve on a Conference Board of Ordained Ministry face a hard job. They are simultaneously responsible for protecting the integrity of the orders in terms of both belief and practice AND try to encourage people in their call to ministry.
I think the fundamental requirement for serving on a CBOOM should be a demonstrated ability to exercice discernment.
I am making an assumption that they are theologically informed and that the clergy members have a healthy balance between their own ministries and personal lives. Neither lazy pastors nor pastors on the verge of burnout themselves should not evaluate the potential for ministry of others.
Good question John.
I think it should require a wide variety of experiences, and cultural backgrounds, and an articulated (to the entire conference) vision of what they are trying to raise up in the clergy, holding both new candidates and ordained elders and deacons accountable to that vision.
Which then raises the need for accountability of the CBOOM, of which I have not found the background to say that it can or does happen.
Wesleyan in thier theology. The reason we have so many unitarians in our clergy ranks is because we have unitarians serving the BOM
Commitment both to prayer and to our doctrinal standards.
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