Annual Conference Council issues invitation to conversation hour.

The Annual Conference Council invites all interested persons to an hour of conversation with members of the Council at the 2004 Annual Conference in Charleston, W.Va. The dialogue will take place 9-10 p.m. Sunday, July 4, at the Marriott Town Place Hotel.

The Council wishes to have an initial conversation to facilitate discussion of broad theological and structural questions raised in the query to the 2003 Annual Conference entitled "Query for Clarification of Confusion." The Council has determined that responses to these questions need as wide a discussion as possible from across the denomination, according to a release from Lerry Fogle, executive director of the Conference.

Issues in the query that remain to be addressed include the relationship of set-apart leadership to the Brethren belief in the "ministry of all believers," and understandings and inconsistencies in the call and administration of licensed and ordained ministers. The conversation will be helpful to the Council and other leadership groups in the church as the issues of licensing and ordination of ministers are considered in the future, the release said.

Source: 6/04/2004 Newsline
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