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Servants Without Hire: Emerging Concepts Of Christian Ministry In The Campbell-Stone Movement, William Martin Smith
Servants Without Hire: Emerging Concepts Of Christian Ministry In The Campbell-Stone Movement, William Martin Smith
ACU Brown Library Monograph Series
Based on the Reed Lectures from 1967, Smith traces the anti-clerical message that accompanied the frontier religious preaching of Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone. Their hopes were that congregations could appoint their own leaders without the undue influence of outsiders. These evangelists were to be first and foremost servants, with no distinction between lay members and ministers. Smith, then traces the development of a professional ministry system within Disciples of Christ into the 1960s as churches called for greater levels of training among their preachers. Chapters include: ▪ A Nineteenth Century Revolution: A Free Ministry in a Free Society ▪Pastors-Evangelists-Bishops …