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Although the New Testament does not teach that ordination is an essential requirement for equipping leaders for their ministry, the ceremony of setting a person apart for ministry seems to fit the New Testament pattern. The practice of ordination seems to be practical for the organized work of the churches. To make ordination a sacrament is wrong.
Here are several worship service plans for ordination and installation services. You will find many ideas here that will aid you in making this worship event inspiring and challenging as well as one that will reflect the honor of Christian ministry and bring glory to God. Worship Service.
This service was built on earlier examples, especially the ordination service of Cindy Holtrop, who serves on the staff of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. As with the preceding service of installation, this service of ordination draws significantly on baptism imagery.
Disciples accept Ordination as a gift of the Holy Spirit at work in the community of faith. In every service of Ordination we, therefore, seek to witness to at least four aspects of this ordering of ministry. 1) Apostolic Ministry: The Ordained enter the apostolic ministry By this we
The nurture and supervision of candidates for ordination, the authorization of ordination, and a significant role in the ordination service are primarily the responsibilities of regions. Congregations also participate directly in the examining of candidates and conducting of services of ordination.
The service should be cast in a liturgical form appropriate to the experience of the ordinand and the church. The order of worship should include such elements as a call to worship, an invocation, appropriate hymns or other music and congregational responses of prayer and consecration.
Ordination Service When all have reached their places the congregation remains standing. The people remain standing as Pastor Elliott says: God calls his people to follow Christ, and commissions us to serve His people and declare the wonderful deeds of Him who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. God has given particular