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A lay preacher at a nineteenth-century Haugean conventicle. A lay preacher is a preacher who is not ordained (i.e. a layperson ) and who may not hold a formal university degree in theology . Lay preaching varies in importance between religions and their sects.
He continued as a wheelwright but, after a period of group bible study, soon became a Methodist lay-preacher. By 1800, Bourne had moved a short distance to Harriseahead, a mining village near Biddulph close to the Staffordshire–Cheshire border. Bourne was appalled at the moral state of his new surroundings, saying, "There was not in England a ...
Joseph Dennie (August 30, 1768 – January 7, 1812) was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era. [1] A Federalist, Dennie is best remembered for his series of essays entitled The Lay Preacher and as the founding editor of The Port Folio, a journal espousing classical republican values.
John Wesley (/ ˈ w ɛ s l i / WESS-lee; [1] 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.
John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas, in 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth La Prade Rice, and the oldest of three brothers.Will Rice was a small businessman, a lay preacher, and a one-term state legislator "well respected in the community."
Nikolaus Storch (born pre-1500, died after 1536) was a German weaver and radical lay-preacher in the Saxon town of Zwickau.He and his followers, known as the Zwickau Prophets, played a brief role during the early German Reformation years in south-east Saxony, and there is a view that he was a forerunner of the Anabaptists.
Lawson's Harlem church is still thriving more than 45 years after his death. In 1998, COOLJC had about 30,000 members in 450 churches in the United States. There are now 582 churches worldwide, including congregations in West Africa, Mexico , Canada, the British West Indies , the Dominican Republic , England, Haiti , and the Philippines .
John Byington (1798–1887) was a lay preacher and first president of the newly organized Seventh-day Adventist church. Born in Vermont, son of a Methodist preacher who had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary army. John was baptized into the Methodist church at age 17. He shortly was given a license to preach as a lay preacher.