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Ordained ministry is different from the general ministry of the laity in that one is duly called, prepared, examined, ordained, and authorized to a representative ministry on behalf of the whole people (laos) of God. . . What does the public rite of ordination confer? A classical Protestant answer from Chemnitz is fivefold: (1) ordination is a public testimony by which the call of God is openly declared to be approved by the church; (2) through ordination the ministry is committed formally to the ordinand; (3) through the ordinand’s solemn vow, the one who has been called “becomes obligated to the church in the sight of God to render the faithfulness in the ministry that the Lord requires”; (4) through ordination “the church is reminded that it is to recognize that this pastor has divine authority to teach”; and (5) in ordination the whole church expressly prays to “commit to God” the ministry of one who is called, expecting that God will accompany this ministry.
Pastoral Theology - Thomas C. Oden
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