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Thoughts and conversation on pastoral ministry, asking what this ministry is and should be according to the Scriptures and thinking about how to live this out in practical ways

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  1. noun The act of serving; ministration.
  2. noun One that serves as a means; an instrumentality.
  3. noun The profession, duties, and services of a minister.
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  • Thoughts and conversation on pastoral ministry, asking what this ministry is and should be according to the Scriptures and thinking about how to live this out in practical ways —  Oversight of Souls
  • It's like the ministry is the well that we are drawing from and these songs are pouring out of. —  Cross Rhythms
  • During yesterday's tender, it seemed that the organizational skills missed in the financial framework set up by the ministry were absent on the public relations side as well. —  Turkishdailynews Headlines
  • Aguilar and four other members of the ministry will be arraigned today in Orange County Superior Court on multiple weapons and gang felony charges after a bar brawl that ended with two Hells Angels stabbed. —  CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports
  • She said the ministry is aggressively promoting budget travel in the country to take full advantage of current economic conditions.
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  1. Middle English ministerie, from Old French ministere, from Latin ministerium, from minister, servant; see mei-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also ministery; = French ministère = Spanish Portuguese Italian ministerio, from Latin ministerium, the office or function of an attendant or servant, attendance, service, office, occupation, employment, a suite of attendants, etc., from minister, an attendant, servant, minister: see minister, n. Cf. ministerium, and mister, mystery, ult. from Latin ministerium.
 

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