Commissioned minister: Regulations for
From Wesleyan Discipline
3059
- (4) Regulations for a Commissioned Minister.
- (a) A commissioned minister is amenable to the district where membership is held, and may be deposed from the ministry and ordered to surrender credentials by judicial process (Gen. Bd. Policy on Ch. Disc. 5206-5212).
- (b) A commissioned minister is amenable to the district where membership is held, and may be deposed from the ministry and ordered to surrender credentials by judicial process (Gen. Bd. Policy on Ch. Disc. 5206-5212).
- (c) A commissioned minister who fails to file the annual service report (1402) for two successive years, shall be notified by the district board of ministerial development, and requested to report at the next session of the district conference. One who then fails to report shall be declared withdrawn from the district, and this person’s name shall be so entered upon the minutes of the district conference.
- (d) When a commissioned minister surrenders the commission certificate after acknowledging guilt for an offense (3059:3d), or is ordered to surrender it after due judicial process (Gen. Bd. Policy on Ch. Disc. 5212:4), it shall be lawful to publish such fact in the official church publication.