{"id":262,"date":"2009-09-21T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-09-21T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T05:01:51","slug":"ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not an Ordinary Nation.<\/p>\n<p>The word ordain comes from the word order.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what it means.\u00a0 It can be like an order that a boss gives a worker or like putting things in alphabetical order.\u00a0 When a church ordains a pastor.\u00a0 They do a little of both.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what happened to me.\u00a0 My church made me a part of the leadership team along with other elders and deacons.\u00a0 With a team committed to serving God with wisdom and humility the things that get done and the decisions that get made will be done with order and not disorder.\u00a0 I also got orders from my Boss  to step into this role and to serve the people of God&#8217;s church.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m taking my orders to teach and to serve.\u00a0 This talk is just a response to being assigned this new role.<\/p>\n<p>But a pastor is just 1 role in the church.\u00a0 Everybody in the church is supposed to be using their gifts to serve God as a team.\u00a0 So what does it mean to serve God?\u00a0 And how should we look at our own role as part of this team?<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/080928-ordination.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/?powerpress_pinw=262-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sermons\/080928-ordination.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"080928-ordination.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 16:13 &#8212; 7.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not an Ordinary Nation. The word ordain comes from the word order.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what it means.\u00a0 It can be like an order that a boss gives a worker or like putting things in alphabetical order.\u00a0 When a church ordains a pastor.\u00a0 They do a little of both.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what happened to me.\u00a0 My church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,85,12,83,11,27,82,84,26],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons","tag-calling","tag-change","tag-church","tag-evidence","tag-forgiveness","tag-healing","tag-holiness","tag-leadership","tag-responsibility"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastorfrog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}