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Ministry

Service's axiom

Salvation is a process that supposes that the person implied to be a part of Christ’s body, the Church. This body is build up through service as a divine-human work through dedication of the believers and the work of the Holy Ghost. In the Church’s life the service implies each believer individually so that in this process cannot be included neutrality, there is no condition not to be servant or a person included in service.

Specific services

In the Church there is a service dimension that implies responsibilities and specific charisma that distinguish the people invested with a certain authority from God and Church. Here we include services concerning sacraments.

Authority concept in the Church

The existence as a whole is governed by the principle of authority. If something happens, if a transformation takes place, then this principle will enter into action. The biblical revelation shows us that in the religious sphere the authority is not power of the people, as in the political sphere, but belongs to God. He decided that some of us should be apostles and others to be shepherds, etc. For the divine service God chooses his people, invests them as authority and distinguishes them before the nation as chosen, unique, dedicated people. In this process also takes part the community that recognizes and validates the authority invested by God. The authority is a relational reality. This is received (from God), is confirmed (by the community, by the other gifts or church authority) and is practically proved (produces, makes real, develops).

Ministry Team

In the history of the Church we can identify many organizational and leading modalities of the Christian communities. According to its vision, the Strajerul community considers that the structure of the Church authority is an organic one, its dynamic being achieved function of the needs of the local communities and their potential.

In this perspective the service in the Strajerul Church is designed and achieved by implying the concept of divine service team.

The concept of team refers to two ground aspects:

• Engaging an amount of gifts in the service and in taking responsibility regarding the service;
• Accomplishing the authority principle (first at this level of the team and then in the entire community).

The people invested in the service team are seated in a position of authority. These persons must be in the Church, to be spiritually mature and to have been involved in a discipleship process. The investing is achieved as a result of the Church’s prayer and by putting hands by the servants that have this authority. The investing act is not made by means of institutional mechanisms (seminary graduation, voting, hierarchical assignment, etc.), but as a result of the identification and validation of the gift or of charisma following some discussions initiated by persons who are spiritual grown and of the Church’s prayer.

The mission of the service team targets to achieve the Church functions as a whole, both in the liturgical and outside the liturgical space (adoration, spiritual formation, sacraments, discipline, mission, social projects, etc.).

It is very important to mention that through the concept of team we can try to ensure diversity and dynamic in the problem of service through delimitation and support of some specific gifts without superposing or focusing them in one person.

At service team level we identify and encourage some important gifts that target: shepherding, teaching, worship, organization, vision and community leading.

(updated: 1 August 2005)

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