Jobs inside The Church

Friday, September 16, 2011 at 12:11 PM

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by smalltowngirl

Have you thought about using your vocation in a church setting?

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RedLetterChristian on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 10:49am says

Most of the churches in my area are too small to have paid staff. Our head pastor is the only paid person at our church. People volunteer to clean the church, mow the grass, count the offering, etc. I honestly think that every church member should evaluate their individual skills and figure out how they can help in the church. So many people think they can't help because they aren't musically inclined or they don't like to talk in front of people, but everyone can help in some way (such as the areas you were talking about).

smalltowngirl on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 7:19pm says

I wasn't thinking about anything quite this heavy. I was wondering if folks had given much thought to entering into ministry through skills other than the traditional entry into ministry. For example, working for the church as business administrator, IT staff, marketing, those types of ministry.

Rich Buckley on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 7:34am says

All voices of laity are important, even more important than the ancient voices of corporate denial run by well meaning bishopships that are locked into rigid dogmatic posts of inherited, perpetual victimization of us, from old world traditions, who's true meanings have been lost in time. It's not necessarily the fault of any bishopship's inherited post, as they tend to do what we ask and invest them to do. They are as tied to enslavement as we. We hold the power of liberation. The Bishops do need to be pressed by us to resist the powers of enslavement more than every before. Enable bottom-up energy of love and cooperation, rather than the historic top down action of enslavement and battered dogma which truth has been lost and buried for milena. World peace and our eventual personal liberation depends on this change; together we can by-pass the "ism's" of enslavement and enable humankind to find its inheritance: Ye are gods. The biggest and most powerful secret that the dark forces are keeping you and our clergy from learning is that we (each of us) are the most powerful force known with the ability to manipulate reality around us and these forces are multiplied and focused as we collectively resonate our good intentions in focused thought.

Rich Buckley on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 10:47am says

We have been discussing this topic on the broader reorganization of a much needed change to UMC job structure on Rethink Church: Here are jobs we need to reorganize UMC around in my opinion: http://tiny.cc/qlfcl The goal would be to train a thin sliver of our ministry to provide personalized training in stages-of-life spiritual needs, from Biblical Holy Ghost experience to a samadhi-like rising of the Kundalini to adults only. These "world view" specialists would be bound by their contract with the church to honor our Christ projected message of love, and pledge to not proselytize. By design these specialists would travel only to where they are invited (or we could go to them). They would be accommodated and required to move on, never given time at the pulpit. Never speaking to large groups or less than three at a time. This would be their sole mission throughout their service. They would never be allowed to serve from the pulpit. They would otherwise become too powerful and power is the great glamour that seduces truth. The Specialists would not report to Bishops. They would be only on call by United Methodist "members." Bishops would have to tolerate them, like it or not, as a small yet transpersonal form of spiritual restraint upon Bishops' own spiritual collective wisdom, spiritually tied back through laity's elevated voice. Specialists would be independent contractors with one client, the UMC. If the process died from lack of interest and use then so be it, but the working group of Specialists would be given access to requesting adult members of the church. Lay volunteers to Specialist service should also be considered. "Never to loose sight of the New Testament, while bringing spiritual experience and personal awakening back into mainstream Christianity in a spirit of love, tolerance in the search of the broader truth. Things to consider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ1VvvrAILo&feature=youtube_gdata_player