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       BYLAWS 4.B Procedure for Admission: Men Not Yet Ordained
       By: pastorsloan Date: August 10, 2015, 3:45 pm
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       Please make suggestions on how to treat men not yet ordained.
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       Re: BYLAWS 4.B Procedure for Admission: Men Not Yet Ordained
       By: pastorpatricknelson Date: August 19, 2015, 5:01 am
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       I would recommend that there would be a phone conversation with
       every candidate letters of recommendation and an ordination
       examine etc.
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       Re: BYLAWS 4.B Procedure for Admission: Men Not Yet Ordained
       By: pastorsloan Date: August 20, 2015, 9:00 am
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       What would the ordination requirements be?  What would the exam
       consist of?  I have a model that I think works really well that
       I will post later.
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       Re: BYLAWS 4.B Procedure for Admission: Men Not Yet Ordained
       By: pastorsloan Date: August 20, 2015, 11:45 am
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       Suggested Procedure
       ORDINATION PROCEDURE
       1. Application must fill out the ministerial application and
       form of subscription.
       2. Application shall provide to the regional representative or
       credentials committee of the classis the following:
       a. A transcript or other evidence of education preparedness.
       b. a paper covering the following topics:
       1. a brief testimony of conversion
       2. a testimony of call to the ministry
       3. major theological areas: scripture and revelation, theology
       proper, Christology, pneumatology, Biblical anthropology,
       soteriology, ecclesiology (included sacraments), and eschatology
       c. a transcript or recording of a sermon.
       3. The representative or committee shall review the materials,
       and if found acceptable, the paper, sermon, and educational
       preparedness shall be distributed to the classis.  An ordination
       examination shall be held where the applicant will defend his
       paper.
       4. The classis will then make the decision to recommend or not
       recommend the applicant for ordination.
       5. Once passed, the local congregation of the applicant shall
       make arrangements for an ordination service to be held, at which
       ordination vows shall be administered.
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