Ordination is the church setting a tested person apart for the work.
With prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord.
The word ordination is the church’s name for appointment. Paul and Barnabas appointed elders in every church with prayer and fasting and committed them to the Lord. In Antioch the church fasted, prayed, and laid hands on Barnabas and Saul. Timothy received a gift when the elders laid on hands. Paul says not to be hasty. The laying on of hands is the act. Ordination is the setting apart. It does not give a man a grace the church can invent. It recognizes the work and commits the person to the Lord.
- Elders are appointed in every church, not self-sent.
- Fasting and prayer go with the hands.
- Haste is the danger. A tested life comes first.
They appointed elders with prayer and fasting.
They laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Do not be hasty.
- Ordination is appointment to the work.
- Elders were appointed in every church.
- Prayer, fasting, and hands accompany it.
- Timothy’s gift is tied to the elders’ hands.
- Haste is forbidden.
- The Lord receives the person. The church does not manufacture the gift.
- The Name – Setting apart.
- The Elders – Appointed in every church.
- The Hands – Laid on with prayer.
- The Fast – With the sending.
- The Gift – Not neglected.
- The Ban – Not hasty.
- Acts 14:23 – “When they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord.”
- Acts 13:2-3 – “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul… they laid their hands on them and sent them off.”
- 1 Timothy 4:14 – “Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.”
- 1 Timothy 5:22 – “Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands.”
- 2 Timothy 1:6 – “Fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.”
- Titus 1:5 – “Appoint elders in every town as I directed you.”
- Acts 6:6 – “They prayed and laid their hands on them.”
- 1 Timothy 3:10 – “Let them also be tested first; then let them serve.”
- Acts 14:26 – “From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.”
- 2 Timothy 2:2 – “What you have heard from me… entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.”
They appointed elders in every church, with prayer and fasting.
They laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands.
Ordination is that setting apart. Prayer, fasting, tested men, and no haste.
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