jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 8/18/2020 6:53 AM, Gary wrote:
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> I had a co-worker who was ordained in at least a half dozen churches.
> >
> > An ordained minister is an ordained minister. Good for all
> > churches.
> >
> That is absolutely not true.

Good for all protestant churches. It's up to the individual
churches to want you or not, depending on the individual
church beliefs and they do vary.

An ordained minister just knows the bible well.

My father was an ordained minister. The real kind with a
4 year degree from a seminary school after high school.
He ended up working for the defense dept but he did occasionally
do guest preaching at churches.

He took me along with him one Sunday when he was the
guest preacher at a "church for the deaf." That was
very weird and yes, he knew sign language. Darn smarty
pants.