What is the difference between clergy and laity?

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Answer 1

clergy are ordained
laity are not

Answer 2

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The Bible does teach a distinction between Offices and Laity...The titles you mention are man made not God made. Pastor, Bishop, Elder, Evangelist, Missionary, Teacher...these positions are all mentioned or taught in the New Testament, of that there can be no doubt. These positions go to people who are more mature in the Word of God, even Paul said "we who teach will be dealt with more harshly this is why not many of you should seek to be teachers". Unfortunately man loves titles and attention and have come up with more than a few titles to prove that. There is a Biblical distinction between (for lack of better words) "Clergy & Laity" just as there is a distinction between a High-school Principle and a High-School Teacher and the difference between a 6th grade Teacher and his students..... Yes, there is a Biblical Distinction....just not the distinction that man has made.

Answer 3

Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. The term comes from Greek κληρος (a lot, that which is assigned by lot (allotment) or metaphorically, heritage).
Depending on the religion, clergy usually take care of the ritual aspects of the religious life, teach or otherwise help in spreading the religion's doctrine and practices. They often deal with life-cycle events such as childbirth, baptism, circumcision, coming of age ceremonies, marriage, and death. Clergy of most faiths work both inside and outside formal houses of worship, and can be found working in hospitals, nursing homes, missions, armies, etc.

Laity: In religious organizations, the laity comprises all lay persons collectively. This can mean either any person who is not a member of the clergy or of any monastic order or, within such an order, a monastic who is not a priest (c.f., lay brother). The Roman Catholic Church during its Second Vatican Council defined the laity as those members of the Church whose role is to sanctify worldly realities. In recent centuries, the term is often used more generally, in the context of any specialized profession, to refer to those who are not members of that profession.

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Answer 4

In TRUE CHRISTIANITY there is NO DIFFERENCE.

In catholicism the clergy "know everything" and the laity just follow and pay the bills,+, +, +.

In islam the clergy are considered PERFECT and the laity leave their brains when they join the faith.

Answer 5

Clergy consist of the ministers, priests, rabbi's etc. who tend to the members of their cogregations. Laity are the non clergy members of the congregation.

Answer 6

The clergy are the ordained people, like the bishops, priests, and deacons. The laity are the non ordained of the church, who may do certain ministerial duties.

Answer 7

What Is The Clergy

Answer 8

Lay people may collaborate with the duties of priests, but 'collaboration' does not mean 'substitution for'.

The difference between common priesthood and the ministerial priesthood (that of the clergy: bishops, priests and deacons) is that the ministry of the clergy, gives them the power to act in the name of Christ. It gives them the authority to proclaim the Word of God, administer the sacraments and pastorally direct the faithful.

Priests will always be needed in the Church; they cannot be replaced. The non-ordained faithful may cooperate with their pastors in their pastoral ministry, that is, in some of their functions and to a limited degree: the ministry of the Word, preaching, the homily, pastoral ministry, liturgical celebrations, etc.

Answer 9

What Is Laity

Answer 10

The former is charged in the lawsuit, the latter files the lawsuit.