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Summary Ministerial Ethics provides both new and experienced pastors with tools for sharpening their personal and professional decision-making skills. The authors seek to explain the unique moral role of the minister and the ethical responsibilities of the vocation and to provide 'a clear statement of the ethical obligations contemporary clergy should assume in their personal and professional lives.' Trull and Carter deal with such areas as family life, confidentiality, truth-telling, political involvement, working with committees, and relating to other church staff members. First published in 1993, this edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and contains expanded sections on theological foundations, the role of character, confidentiality, and the timely topic of clergy sexual abuse.
Appendices describing various denominational ministerial codes of ethics are included. © 2004 by Joe E. Trull and James E.
Carter Published by Baker Academic a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI www.bakeracademic.com Ebook edition created 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. ISBN 978-1-58558-302-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress,Washington, D.C. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®.
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. Www.zondervan.com Scripture quotations identified GNB are from the Good News Bible, Today’s English Version. Copyright © American Bible Society 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992. Used by permission. Scripture quotations identified KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible. Scripture quotations identified NKJV are from the New King James Version.
Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations identified NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. To all good ministers who faithfully serve Jesus Christ and his church with integrity Wide was his parish, houses far asunder, But never did he fail, for rain or thunder, In sickness, or in sin, or any state, To visit to the farthest, small and great, Going afoot, and in his hand a stave. This fine example to his flock he gave, That first he wrought and afterwards he taught; Out of the gospel then that text he caught, And this figure he added thereunto— That, if gold rust, what shall poor iron do?
For if the priest be foul, in whom we trust, What wonder if a layman yield to lust? Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction 1 The Minister’s Vocation: Career or Profession? 2 The Minister’s Moral Choices: Endowed or Acquired? 3 The Minister’s Personal Life: Incidental or Intentional? 4 The Minister’s Congregation: Friend or Foe? 5 The Minister’s Colleagues: Cooperation or Competition?
6 The Minister’s Community: Threat or Opportunity? 7 A Major Ethical Issue: Clergy Sexual Abuse 8 A Ministerial Code of Ethics: Help or Hindrance? Appendix A: A Procedure for Responding to Charges of Clergy Sexual Abuse Appendix B: Early Denominational Codes Appendix C: Contemporary Denominational Codes Appendix D: Ministerial and Parachurch Groups Codes Appendix E: Sample Codes of Ethics Notes Preface to the Second Edition The first edition of this book appeared in 1993 under the title Ministerial Ethics: Being a Good Minister in a Not-So-Good World. Due to a growing recognition of ethical dilemmas faced by ministers, concern for professional ethics in ministry has increased in all denominations.
During the past decade, this interest has moved beyond the religious institutions to the community at large. In 2002, clergy sexual misconduct by Roman Catholic priests, coupled with an apparent cover-up by church officials, shocked a nation and captured the news. Lawsuits threatened to bankrupt several dioceses. Leaders in all religious groups reassessed the need for ethics in ministry among their own clergy. Parallel to this increasing awareness, religious schools and seminaries have accepted greater responsibility to develop moral character in their students. New studies in spiritual formation now appear in the curriculum of almost every Christian school. A plethora of textbooks on the subject supports this new interest in personal spiritual growth and ethical character development.
The need for an updated and expanded edition of our text is obvious. It is our hope that this second edition will support this renewed awareness of the importance of ministerial ethics. In addition, we believe churches as well as educational institutions will benefit from understanding and addressing the issues outlined in these pages. To this end, we have added a new chapter (chap. 7) that focuses specifically on clergy sexual abuse.
We hope this addition will help counteract the disturbing incidences of ministers crossing into the forbidden zone, as well as guide churches in prevention and response strategies. Many reviews of the first edition expressed appreciation for the appendices, which contained a number of ministerial codes of ethics, past and present. We have strengthened this section by revising the list, as well as adding several contemporary codes developed in the last few years.
Preparing the second edition has reminded us of the book’s limitations, namely, the brevity with which we address many significant subjects. Some of the chapters could easily be the subject of an entire book.
Nevertheless, we believe a general overview of the entire scope of ministerial ethics in the form of an introductory text is justified. Finally, we wish to express gratitude to Baker Book House for their willingness to publish this revised and expanded second edition and to acquisitions editor Robert N.
Hosack, whose patience and second-mile efforts made this new edition a reality. Preface to the First Edition After half a century of relative silence on the subject, the last decade has witnessed a renewed interest in ministerial ethics. One reason for this attention is our rapidly changing culture; clergy ethics are more complex in today’s society.
Another factor is the seeming increase in moral failures in the ministry. Rightly or wrongly, churches formerly assumed that Christian ministers were persons of integrity who could be counted on to be ethical. No longer is this presumption possible.
As a result, theological seminaries and church-related colleges are reexamining their responsibilities for spiritual formation and rethinking their curricula. The teaching of ministerial ethics to ministerial students is a new priority in many schools. The purpose of this book is twofold. First, this study intends to teach Christian ministry students the unique moral role of the minister and the ethical responsibilities of that vocation. A second purpose is more practical: to provide new and established ministers with a clear statement of the ethical obligations contemporary clergy should assume in their personal and professional lives.
This work is the joint effort of two people who have been friends since seminary days and who feel uniquely bonded by their Christian faith, their love of ministry, and their like-mindedness. We have spent most of our adult lives as pastors, an aggregate of more than fifty-five years of ministry in rural, small-town, suburban, university, and downtown churches. The two of us now serve by guiding and training other ministers in the vocation. Although the seminary teacher authored the more foundational chapters of the book (1, 2, 6, 7) and the denominational worker the more practical ones (3, 4, 5), the entire work is the product of both of our minds, as we have labored together throughout the project. We have also worked very hard at inclusiveness. Aware of our own white-male-Baptist-pastor perspective, we have intentionally tried to address all ministers: male and female, pastors and associate ministers, generalists and specialists, various ethnic groups and Christian traditions. Although our theological approach is based in the evangelical tradition, we hope clergypersons of every persuasion will find in this book encouragement and assistance for their own ministry.
Like all good ethical choices, this book is the result of the broad influence of many people. Numerous colleagues, friends, and ministers have made significant contributions. Each topic brings to mind many good ministers we have known throughout the years. We wish to thank each of them. In particular, Joe E. Trull is grateful to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for sabbatical leave in 1991–92 to complete this book, to Union Theological Seminary in Virginia for inviting him to be a research fellow on their campus during that time, to the T.
Maston Foundation for providing a grant to assist in this project, and to the late T. Maston himself, beloved mentor and teacher whose life and lessons are often reflected in this work. Carter is particularly grateful to the churches he has served as pastor through the years, to the executive board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention for its encouragement to write, to the Southern Baptist churches and ministers in Louisiana with whom it is his privilege to work, and to T. Maston, who though not his primary professor was also a major influence in the formation of his ethical thinking.
Both of us wish to give special recognition to the laypersons, teachers, and ministers who read our manuscript and gave invaluable advice along the way: John Alley, Larry Baker, Wayne Barnes, Cheryl Burns, Cynthia Greenleaf, Robert Parham, Allen Reasons, and Nell Summerlin. For that unique support and counsel that only a spouse can give, our personal gratitude to Audra and Carole. Introduction Ours is an age of ethical uncertainty. In Walker Percy’s novel The Thanatos Syndrome, a minister faces an ethical dilemma.
Percy capsules his moral confusion and ours in one line: This is not the Age of Enlightenment, but the Age of Not Knowing What To Do. ¹ One writer calls this quote an apt aphorism for our age and adds: Politicians, scientists, physicians, business leaders, everyday citizens, and our clergy increasingly find themselves in situations where they really do not know what to do. As a result, ethics has become a boom industry, and moral failure a regular front-page phenomenon. Conventional wisdom seems glaringly inadequate in the face of our environmental, technological, political, economic, and social situations. ² Ministerial ethics can no longer be assumed, if ever they were.
In a city not far from where one of us lives, the pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the South was arrested for drug smuggling. He confessed to flying cocaine from Colombia for $50,000. The minister, whose church had led the state in the number of baptisms for several years, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $10,000. A regional magazine in a metropolitan area in the Southwest featured a cover story titled Thy Neighbors’ Wives, which chronicled the sexual affairs of a megachurch’s pastor.
The article claimed that the charismatic leader was obsessed with wealth, power, and status. One beautiful woman was not enough, said a deacon, referring to the minister’s wife. He was set up as an ideal man. He was adored and he ate it up. ³ The saddest chapter in these two tragic stories was the final one.
Neither fallen minister seemed remorseful when exposed, nor did he appear repentant when sanctioned. After a brief absence, they both established new independent congregations in the same cities where they had previously pastored. Moral failures in the ministry are all too common today. Chaucer asked, If gold rust, what shall poor iron do? Obviously, it too rusts, perhaps more rapidly. For if the priest be foul, in whom we trust, continued the author of The Canterbury Tales, what wonder if a layman yield to lust? The present crisis in ministerial ethics is both a reflection of our times and an influence on our society.
Ethical failure in the pulpit affects the pew. At the same time, clergy morals seem to mirror the general decline in morality among the laity. Our day is fraught with political cover-ups, insider trading on the stock exchange, corporate scandals, and media manipulation. Numbed by it all, people are seldom shocked when they hear of an immoral minister. Several years ago the academic dean of a seminary asked one of us to develop a course in ministerial ethics. Although this ethics professor was a freshman faculty member, he did understand the subject after twenty-five years in pastoral ministry. The congregations served by this new teacher were varied: a rural mission church in Oklahoma, a small-town church in north Texas, a fast-growing congregation in a suburb of Dallas, and a downtown church in the international city of El Paso.
(The coauthor of this text served similar congregations in Louisiana and Texas for over thirty years before becoming the director of the Church Minister Relations Division of the Louisiana Baptist Convention.) From our own experiences, both of us knew that ministers needed help in personal and professional ethics. The dean of the seminary had concerns beyond the need he saw for students to study pastoral ethics. Moral scandals involving televangelists and prominent religious leaders had recently made the pages of USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. These embarrassing stories had created an atmosphere of distrust toward all ministers. Even more alarming to the dean was that almost every week another Shakespearean moral tragedy came to his attention, as the curtain rose to reveal a new tale of a fallen minister and a forced termination.
A study of the dismissals of Southern Baptist pastors by Norris Smith, a specialist in the area of forced terminations, revealed that immorality was a leading cause of dismissals, second only to a lack or abuse of communication. The survey defined immorality as sexual misconduct, substantive lying, and the misuse or embezzlement of church funds. Smith pointed to a lack of accountability and of clear professional guidelines among pastors as contributors to their ethical failure. ⁴ These events, as critical as they were, did not in and of themselves fully justify a new course in the seminary curriculum. Three significant facts verified the crucial need to teach professional ethics to today’s clergy.
The first actually became the basic rationale for the ministerial ethics course and for this book: The Christian minister occupies a unique role among all vocations. This is true in relation not only to other occupations but also among the traditional service professions. No vocation is as ethically demanding as the Christian ministry. No professional is expected to model morality as much as a minister. Today’s ministers walk an ethical tightrope. At one moment they may serve as prophets, priests, or educators; in the next, they may be administrators, counselors, or worship leaders. Each of these roles raises ethical dilemmas and exposes moral vulnerability not faced by doctors, lawyers, or other professionals.
For example, most church members trust their minister without hesitation. Yet this intimate relationship often involves a parishioner sharing her soul, which makes a church minister vulnerable to many subtle temptations. The most obvious danger is sexual misconduct. Many clergy catastrophes involve romantic affairs, sexual liaisons, pedophilic acts, and other sexual transgressions. Equally immoral, though often overlooked, are certain ministerial habits that may be considered part of the job description.
Pulpit exaggeration is accepted as a normal trait of preachers. How often does a church member say, Oh, he’s just preaching! More serious is the unethical conduct of an autocratic leader who misuses power, manipulates people, and practices deception and dishonesty. Pascal warned that people never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions. The American culture stimulates in many clerics the desire to succeed. To be called as a pastor of a large, prestigious church is the goal that has led many good ministers to sacrifice their integrity on the altar of success.
The first fact led to the second: Literature on the subject of ministerial ethics was rare. Two decades ago in his classic Survey of Recent Christian Ethics, Edward Leroy Long Jr.
Noted that practically no attention has been given to the ethical problems arising from the practice of ministry, though the role of the church with respect to social issues has been hotly debated. ⁵ Other than Bishop Nolan Harmon’s Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette (a 1928 publication now in its twelfth reprinting) and J.
Clark Hensley’s booklet Preacher Behave! ⁶ little was available as a resource for ministers. One notable exception was Karen Lebacqz’s Professional Ethics,⁷ an excellent academic text dealing with basic concepts in pastoral ethics. Two works dealing with professional ethics in general completed the list of early clergy ethics resources.⁸ In the years just before the first edition of this text was published in 1993, three new books on clergy ethics appeared, ⁹ along with a few articles in journals.¹⁰ Although helpful in many ways, the new books seemed hesitant to give specific guidance and failed to discuss many practical issues in ministerial ethics. A compilation of essays written by members of the Chicago Area Ethics Study Group also appeared in the early 1990s.
The authors intentionally chose a terrain-mapping model, explaining that specific issues facing modern clergy are simply too numerous and too varied.¹¹ Regrettably, most of these books are now out of print. Recently, three significant texts addressing the ethical life of the minister have appeared. ¹² Richard Gula’s Ethics in Pastoral Ministry is written from a Roman Catholic perspective, and the strength of the book lies in his development of theological foundations and his discussion of two issues: sexuality and confidentiality.¹³ The most recent clergy ethics text is Calling and Character: Virtues of the Ordained Life, written by William Willimon of Duke University.¹⁴ Both books intentionally avoid analysis of specific issues, proposing that character or virtue is the basis for ministerial ethics; Who am I to be? Rather than What am I to do?