Regarding ORDINATION

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

One would wonder what the source of his thought process might be.

Don't ordained ministers pay higher annual fees than licensed ministers? Maybe it's a matter of finances.

Also, it may be aimed at brand X organizations who don't ordain/license but leave that up to the local church.

[Brad Murphy]

Originally Posted by DAII

In addition, there are a number of qualified and proven ministers among us who have not yet been ordained. There is a special anointing that comes with ordination, as the church and Holy Ghost jointly confirm the call of God with the laying on of hands of the elders. It is not a formality but a breakthrough into a new spiritual dimension.

Well first, someone needs to produce evidence that God himself has given the UPC permission/authority to ordain representatives in his name. A purely man-made "ministerial fellowship", as I have been told it is by several people who used to post here would not have any assumed authority to give people magic super-powers (special anointing) simply because a group of men decide that someone is worthy of that mantle...