Ordination Question

Different churches handle it in different ways. In my church, a man who joins our church from another church where he was a deacon does not automatically become an active deacon. If he is elected at some point in time to serve as an active deacon in our church, we would not re-ordain him. We would honor the ordination of the other church if that church is of like faith and order. However, if he was ordained by a church that was not Baptist, he would have to submit to our ordination before he would be recognized as a deacon.

 

Our church handles this the same as does dh's church. He is right that this is a matter of individual church polity.

Bro Tony

 

What about ordination service for pastors????

 

Assuming that the men chosen to serve the tables in Acts 6 were what we call "deacons" today, the practice of "laying on of hands" commenced there. Here again, that is assuming that "laying on of hands" was the same as our "ordination."

I am not too sure about what Dr. Bob says about deacon ordination originating with the SBC. Maybe he can provide us with some documentation or reference some resources that would enable each of us to draw our own conclusion as to the biblical basis of the practice.

 

I see no reason to ordain deacons, and certainly it is not an ordination that travels from church to church.

 

True and interesting, because a pastoral ordination does.

HankD