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Chapter 17: Doctrine of Ordination

Part I — Form of Government

Sections 18.1–18.3

17-1

Section 18.1

17-1. Those who have been called to office in the Church are to be inducted
by the ordination of a court.

17-2

Section 18.2

17-2. Ordination is the authoritative admission of one duly called to an
office in the Church of God, accompanied with prayer and the laying on of
hands, to which it is proper to add the giving of the right hand of fellowship.

17-3

Section 18.3

17-3. As every ecclesiastical office, according to the Scriptures, is a special
charge, no man shall be ordained unless it be to the performance of a definite
work.