MBJ-Installation

// **WORSHIP** Together: We promise to make Sunday mornings central to the life of our community as we join together for spiritual growth, inspiration, intellectual stimulation, and the comfort of being together for uplift and solace; as well as to challenge our comfort zones. Congregation: We promise you freedom of the pulpit to speak your mind, open your heart and share your spiritual journey. Minister: I promise to respect this trust placed in me by seeking always for authenticity, humor and love, even when treading thorny ground. Congregation: We place our trust in you to lead us through the public rituals which mark our way through a life lived in community: child dedications, coming of age, marriage and death. Minister: I joyfully accept these duties you place before me, and promise to do my best to bring the gift of presence to these sacred moments we share. Together: We promise to share the ministry of caring for each other through good times and bad. Minister: I promise to make my interactions as mindful as possible from day to day so that my time with you, whether in crowded gatherings, small groups of any kind, or one-on-one, may all be deemed pastoral. Congregation: We promise to make our interactions with you, and with each other, as mindful as possible, so that from day to day, whether in crowded gatherings, small groups of any kind, or one-on-one, we too will minister to each other. = PROPHETIC = Together: We promise to exuberantly and thoughtfully construct a bold vision that will free us for the work of transformation both within our community, and in the larger world. Minister: I promise to partner with the various ministries of the church to draw forth meaning from our dreams and solid plans for our progress in realizing them. I promise to do my best to listen and to share my experience, my strengths and my most creative thoughts as we bring our vision to fruition. Congregation: We promise to listen well to each other’s dreams, and to yours, as we pledge ourselves to this prophetic service. [printer-friendly PDF version of this covenant below]
 * __Covenant between Minister and Congregation__**
 * In ordained ministry it is generally acknowledged that there are three primary areas of service: the priestly, the pastoral and the prophetic. In our congregation we seek to learn how best to share the ministry with the minister. Worship and rites of passage (the priestly tasks), loving human beings (the pastoral tasks), and serving and transforming the world (the prophetic tasks) are the work of all our members, not just the minister. But we acknowledge that we come at this work from different vantage points. Today we formally acknowledge the leadership of our new “settled” minister: The Reverend Maj-Britt Johnson. In this act of installation we covenant to affirm our mutual and yet distinct roles in the manifestation of our shared ministry. To this end we make these promises to each other:** //
 * PASTORAL**