{"id":151,"date":"2014-08-02T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-08-02T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T11:07:35","slug":"ordinationdefinition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/ordinationdefinition\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of Ordination and to be Ordained"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been trying to find the ancient definition of the word “ordination” and “ordained” that I once read. I read years ago that ordination is a word that meant in ancient Hebrew “to have the [divine] tools of God’s work placed in your hands.”<\/p>\n

\"Become<\/a>Our other bishop here at the seminary sent me a link\u00a0to Archbishop Campbell’s website.\u00a0++Campbell\u00a0says this about ordination:<\/p>\n

“Finally, let me stress that neither the Bible nor the law requires laying on of hands for legitimate or legal ordination. Policy on minister ordination…allows for ordination by a variety of methods…however all methods of ordination will follow and be in an apostolic manner upholding the historic lines of apostolic succession.<\/p>\n

(Note: In Acts 14:23 the word “appointed” or “ordained” can mean (1)
\nto stretch out the hand, (2) to appoint [ordain] by show of hands or (3) to
\nappoint or elect [or ordain] without regard to the method. Source: NIV Study
\nBible).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been trying to find the ancient definition of the word “ordination” and “ordained” that I once read. I read years ago that ordination is a word that meant in ancient Hebrew “to have the [divine] tools of God’s work placed in your hands.” Our other bishop here at the seminary sent me a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-become-ordained","tag-ordained","tag-ordination"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/ordainedminister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}