The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.
I try hard to be a good Catholic.
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
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