Trust as the Virtue for Ministry

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  • Martin Marty

Abstract

Ministers are defined by their focus in the God in whom they trust and their awareness of obligation and opportunity in the company of ministerial peers and the communities they serve. They are built up by practice, practice, and practice. By study, risk, trust itself, by story-telling and hearing, by resources in the sacred texts, and the most appropriate evidences of learning, and most of all by relation to the people of God who need them and feed them and test them, bidding for and often rewarding their trust, which is the highest kind of gift.

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Volume 32 Virtues In Formation and Supervision - 2012

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