Sunday, March 22, 2015

Why It Is Important To Go For Spiritual Guidance In Life

By Lelia Hall


For an organization or church to run effectively, different groups of people should be available. The different groups of people undertake offering of spiritual guidance to the congregation. Those involved are responsible for offering guidance in various ceremonies including baptism, wedding, and others. Their most important role is providing guidance.

These types of people's roles and responsibilities are nearly the same in all the denominations and churches. Though some will differ at particular levels, some of the most common roles involve: maintaining coordination in the church, provision of guidance and ensuring smooth running of the administration, leading different ceremonies, leading prayers and providing encouragement to different groups of people.

Different denominations have different training and qualification levels for one to be named a minister. A sense of calling is mostly a requirement for all those who want to engage in providing ministerial services. Some denominations will emphasize on natural gifts while others will emphasize on advance qualification. This may include tertiary education from either a seminary, university or a theological college.

In most of the churches including the likes of Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, among others, emphasize on only ordained clergy when it come to conducting church matters. Even at points where politics is concerned, they will only use the ordained people/personnel/clergy. These churches have the following people: Bishop, Priest and deacons.

The role of these people will include: for bishops, administering sacramental services within the church and also governing the daily running of the church. Priests are involved in administering sacraments and also providing guidance to the different congregation. The authority to ordain or consecrate buildings is not within their jurisdiction. Deacons are mandated to providing the necessary support to the church: this is to ensure the church runs in an efficient manner.

The different religions over time have changed in the structure of management and also how they conduct their daily routines. Before reforms in the Northern Europe area, the clergy was the person with most authority to carry out different roles in the church. Currently this is not the case. At some point in time, hereditary roles in different churches was possible. This is not the case as of now.

The likes of the Swedish's empire including Finland have preserved the catholic manner in a more resilient form. Only small aspects have changed. This will prove how the different role of clergy in different parts of the world has changed when compared to other regions.

Ministers within the church are supposed to carry out various activities. These includes, officiating worship rituals and also leading some of the church ceremonies. These will include baptism, confirmation, anointing of the sick, and providing divine services among others.

This term is usually used to refer to a shepherd. In the New Testament, it has been used severally to refer to the church workers. Chaplains and padres have also been included in the modern period. This term is used to refer to a minister who has a different target group compared to the parish congregation. The term padre is a Spanish term which is used to refer to a military chaplain. There has also been the emergence of different types of ministries in non-denominational churches. This includes the likes of youth ministry, campus ministry, and married couple ministry among other ministries.




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