The 21st century
presents a lot of challenges in different spheres of the human life. The
social, economic political, religious, scientific and technological changes
taking place across the globe has made the work of pastors more challenging as
ministers, we must be able to find the right responses to the questions posed
and other issues raised by the developments of the times we are in. Nigeia is
not left out in this ecomomic challenges and that should not make a clergy to
deviat from his calling. The minister of God as suppose must not pretend about
the ealities of our days byut must be sufficiently equipped to respond
adequately to them fo him to positively carry out the great commission and
affect the society as God expected.for a pastor to be effectively positioned to
meet the challenges ahead, let him examine this questions.1 who is a
pastor,minister,clergy may be determined by the organisation. What is ministery
all about and what mandate or calling do you have to satisfy your diocese,
organisation, self or God.
The Anglican ordination of
deacons and priests is done in two liturgical seasons in the year namely
Trinity and Advent ordinations The Incumbent Bishop conducts the service on a
Sunday of the season and must be done in the presence of the congregation. Also
there are two orders of ordination in the Anglican communion and they are that
of a deacon and the priesthood. The bishops are consecrated while the
Archbishop is presented. On the day of ordination the peopleto be ordained are
already in their robes minus the stoles after the retreat arranged by the
diocese three or two to the ordination time. They will move from the retreat
centre to the ordination church or cathedral. The retreat is the time of
decision for the deacons and priests to be ordained into the sacred order. Whether
to go away or continue maybe because of the task ahead the way the work sounds
is not the way it is. Those who are in may want to come out and those outside
would want to go in. The retreat is as important as when you received the call
into the ministry, the bishop laying his hands severally upon the head of every
one of them the laying of hands determines the seniority. The bishop gi;ving
them licences says “take thou authority to execute the office of a deacon”,
If it is a priest take thou authority to
execute the office of a priest. Following this the bishop delivers to everyone
of them the new testament in case of a deacon a full bible in case of a priest.
After that the clergy director dresses the deacons with a white stole in a yoke
form signifying that he has a limited function of the church work to do and he
is strictly under order. The following things ust satisfy the bishop before any
ordination. Sending out of Si-guis duely signed by his home Vicar and sent to
the bishop. Again the examination by the bishop or his chaplains to know if he
met the standards.
The third is the questions
and the signing before the jurisdictions at the ordination service. With all
this in place, the bishop ordains and takes responsibility of the priest. To
post,and prefer. Ordination day is a memorable day in the life and family of
the ordained. A day that marks the diffefence between the leity and the sacred
order. The ordained must not forget that if any minister is to withness growth
in the work he must identify and acknowledfge who the owner of the work is.
If the Holy Spirit is not in
full control of any pastor’s work or church, then every work including the
worker will faint, it is a matter of time.
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