Ethics of the Protestant Ministry

The matter, however, goes deeper than a casual feeling that since the ministry is a profession there ought to be professional laws holding it together. The chief reason for the absence of any professional ministerial codes governing conduct is that the ministry itself is assumed to follow, by the very nature of its calling, the highest principles of religion and ethics. Practicing as well as preaching the tenets of Christianity is the announced goal of the whole profession. Why then, it may be asked, should the ministry be expected to bind itself to minor matters of routine, or follow man-made rules which, at their very best, cannot supplant the tremendous principles of the Christian faith? The whole Christian ministry is a code of conduct in its outward as well as

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