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expanded the page for a fuller treatment of 'minister.'
'''Minister''' has more than one meaning. In [[government]], a minister is a [[cabinet]] level advisor to a [[head of state]], generally with a specific area of focus. In [[Christianity]], a minister is a human representative of [[God]] charged with performing rites and teaching the [[Good News]]. In [[Catholicism]], a minister is a symbolic term for priest. Usually, only included in title as head of a school or as in a department.
'''Minister''' has more than one meaning. In [[government]], a minister is a [[cabinet]] level advisor to a [[head of state]], generally with a specific area of focus.
In [[Christianity]], a minister is a religious leader, usually one who conducts corporate worship, preaches the [[Good News]], and administers the sacraments or ordinances of the church. [[Christ]] is recorded in the [[New Testament]] as having called his twelve Apostles and giving them the oversight of his church after his departure from Earth. Modern ministers are believed to be carrying on that responsibility within local Christian churches.
[[Category:Christian Group Structuring]]
[[Protestants]] are more likely to refer to their clergy by the term than are Catholics. In [[Catholicism]], a priest is indeed a minister but the word is not normally used as a description of his role. Usually, it is used with the head of a school, in a department, or for laypersons who have been given some limited sacramental function, for example, "eucharistic ministers" who are charged with bringing Communion to shut-ins.
[[Category: Christian Group Structuring]]
[[Category:Political Terms]]
[[Category:Political Terms]]
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[[Category:Catholic Church]]