Quotes About Professional clergy

The concern of Methodist jeremiads in the late nineteenth century (see Chapter 5) was that growing Methodist churches were mimicking the standards of others, seeking to be respectable in their eyes. Finally, professional clergy will be more restrained by the norms of the profession and the larger denomination than lay clergy, because they have more to lose-for

Today, youth pastors are part of the professional clergy. Their position is built on the contemporary church's misguided choice to honor a division that was born in secular culture less than a century ago—namely, the division between teenager and everyone else.