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  2. Lay ministry - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary church members may receive "callings" to serve in any number of positions, from leadership and administration to teaching sunday school classes for adults or for children. Some of the leadership positions (e.g. bishop) require ordination to the priesthood, and all worthy male members are ordained to the priesthood and thus have the ...

  3. Lay preacher - Wikipedia

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    The United Methodist Church authorized the role of "certified lay minister" (CLM) at its 2004 General Conference as a non-clergy leadership role, stating that CLMs should not use the title of "pastor"; be addressed as "reverend"; or wear clerical garb (i.e., the robe, stole or collar). [2]

  4. United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of ...

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    On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.

  5. 'Put a price on it': Transcript reveals blunt call between ...

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    Clemishire told Morris he should have paid a steeper price. “Two years out of the ministry big deal,” she said, according to the transcript. “I just have a real problem the fact that you ...

  6. Clergy housing allowance - Wikipedia

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    The home must actually be used as a home by the clergy. The allowance cannot exceed the fair rental value of the home, furnishings, appurtenances, and utilities. [4] [5] [6] Clergy may legitimately include housing costs such as cost of buying or renting a home, real estate taxes, mortgage interest, condo or co-op fees, homeowners association dues, heat, electricity, basic telephone service ...

  7. Why should anyone go to church? Pastors and readers respond - AOL

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    Caleb Martin, layman, Lake View Mennonite Church, 10995 Smith Road, North East. Church - not a building, event or organization - but a people. One of the best answers to the question "Why go to ...

  8. Church tax - Wikipedia

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    The church tax is only paid by members of the respective church, although the concept of "membership" is far from clear, and it may be asked what right the secular state has to tell the faithful what contribution they should make to their own denomination. People who are not members of a church tax-collecting denomination do not have to pay it.

  9. As a scholar, he's charted the decline in religion. Now the ...

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    All this time, he's continued to pastor the small church. “I’m willing to admit that I’m not as good as I could be or should be” as a pastor, he said. “But I’m also not willing to ...