Ministerial ethics

 

NOTE: At Indiana Wesleyan University I teach Church Leadership, a senior course preparing ministers for the local church.  In that course we use the following sheet to intentionally think about ministerial ethics regarding money and finances.  While some of these situations are “no-brainers” others are far more complicated and require policies and common agreements to arrive at the clear ethical answer.  Old-timers used to say “There are two exits from ministry: sex or money.”  If that is so, there is certainly a lot more written to ministers about sex than money.  Thus this handout helps ministers think about ethical decisions they will often face on the spur of the moment.  Most of my students can’t decide many of these things—some are more “generous” (or “loose”) than others.  They usually conclude that they’ll need help—usually in the form of local church policies to help them make some of these decisions.  If you have additional items for me to include please send them to [email protected] 

 

 

 

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