ministry
IPA: mˈɪnʌstri
noun
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- A ministration
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
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Examples of "ministry" in Sentences
- See working in ministry is all about meeting needs and compromising and sacrificing to meet those needs.
- The primacy of prayer in ministry, which is so evident in the Curé of Ars, is an important lesson for parish priests.
- To the left of this paper sat another, which had been folded so that a story bearing the title ministry guarantees students 'sapety was visible.
- The work of the ministry is a warfare, not after the flesh indeed, for it is a spiritual warfare, with spiritual enemies and for spiritual purposes.
- Any indignation, or sympathy for the MoD however, should be tempered with the knowledge that, when it comes to accountability, this ministry is the pits.
- CALDWELL: Bobby, obviously we've got what we call ministry advisory teams that work with the ministries to help them think through some of these challenges and issues.
- But this young woman -- so wholesome, so good to look at in her sweet seriousness, so strong in her womanliness and withal so useful in what she called her ministry -- this woman was -- well, she was different.
- He had greatly lost interest in the questions that had occupied him while he was yet a student, and imagined himself in preparation for what he called the ministry -- never thinking how one was to minister who had not yet learned to obey, and had never sought anything but his own glorification!
- And if the horseman of the first seal represented the chosen ministry who went forth in a glorious mission to win trophies of grace, the horseman of this seal must represent _an apostate ministry_, possessing power and authority to enforce the severest exactions upon the bread of life, thus producing a desolating spiritual famine.
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