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There are three ordinations in the Sacrament of Holy Orders: diaconate; priesthood; and episcopal. The ordination ceremony includes various rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, sign of peace.
Catholic in Cairo. Full text of interview with Rev. Douglas May. The Rev. Douglas May grew up in a small town near Buffalo, New York, but now serves as a Maryknoll missionary in Cairo, where he has worked for more than two decades. He is the only United States-born, English-speaking priest in Egypt. He provides pastoral care for several ...
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- Introduction
- Jesus—The Model For Ministry
- The Church as The Extension of Christ’s Ministry
- The Role of The Holy Spirit in Ministry
- Spiritual Gifts For Ministry
- Ministry Belongs to The Entire Church
- Ordination as Recognition of Spiritual Leadership
- Ordination of Ministry Leaders
- The Meaning and Value of Ordination
- Conclusion
Ministry is the word most often used to identify the work of the Christian clergy. In its biblical sense, however, ministry is a more comprehensive term that properly denotes the work of the whole Church, the body of Christ in the world. Ministry is what the Church does in obedience to the commands of her Lord. Our English word ministry translates ...
Ministry in the New Testament is taught and modeled by Jesus Christ and can never be understood or realized apart from Him. Therefore, a biblical study of ministry may adequately begin with the life and teachings of our Lord, as presented in the New Testament. Ministry is incarnational. In Jesus of Nazareth, God came to dwell among human beings. Th...
The Gospels show that Jesus intended to extend His ministry through the Church, which He would found and build (Matthew 16:18). One of His earliest actions was calling designated apostles “that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach” (Mark 3:14), as He did. After His death and resurrection, Christ explicitly commissioned t...
The necessity of a spiritual endowment for ministry is apparent in Jesus and the apostles. The descent of the Spirit upon Jesus at His baptism was a prerequisite to His ministry (Mark 1:9–13). Jesus specifically instructed the apostles to remain in Jerusalem until they had received the promised Holy Spirit (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4–5). Only after bapti...
If ministry is indeed effected by the gifting and energy of the Spirit, then the New Testament emphasis on spiritual gifts assumes even greater significance. Paul, especially, urges attention to spiritual gifts. To the Corinthians, he wrote, “Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift” (1 Corinthians 1:7). And to the Romans, he wrote, “I long to ...
Our study of ministry and spiritual gifts makes it clear that ministry is the work of the entire body of Christ, not just of a priestly or clerical caste. Even the ministries of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher do not exist as ends in themselves or as rewards for a select elite. They are expressly given “to equip his people for work...
A robust, biblical doctrine of the ministry of the laity may at first appear to diminish the necessity and importance of ordained clergy (those who are specially set apart for the leadership of the Church). On the contrary, it heightens the need, for the laity must be spiritually formed, trained, and led on a massive scale if the mission of the Chu...
The Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths, statement 11. The Ministry, asserts that “a divinely called and scripturally ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for the fourfold purpose of leading the Church in: (1) evangelization of the world (Mark 16:15–20), (2) worship of God (John 4:23–24), (3) building a Body of saints being...
Because the Assemblies of God strives to model after the biblical practice of highly vetted, faithful, and publicly accountable leadership on every level, the term ordinationis chosen to speak of the highest, most respected ministry status. Ordination publicly expresses the value of one’s call to ministry. The divine call to ministry is paramount i...
The apostle Paul expressed in his first letter to Timothy so clearly the attitude that denotes the one called to the Christian ministry: “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service” (1 Timothy 1:12). Paul continues in this passage to admit personal unworthiness and marve...
A recent study of ‘Ministry and Ordination in Early Christianity against a Jewish Background’ by E. J. Kilmartin declared that ‘almost every issue related to the subject [of ordination] remains unsolved’.1 No consensus has been reached about Jewish practice in the first century, and, partly for this reason, uncertainty shrouds also what was done, and why, in the primitive Christian ...
A Short History of Ordination (Part II) In the Part I, I explored the origin of the word “ordination” and how its pagan undertones began to influence Christian thinking on ministry during the second century of the Christian era. Most importantly, I noted that already by the second part of the second century it is possible to detect growing ...
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