Ordained minister
"There were specific requirements voiced by Christ for those who he was to appoint or ordain as ministers of His kingdom." The Riches of the Ministry; Free Church Report.
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Ordained minister
"The Church is recognized among governments not because of its name or designation as a church, but because of the free and voluntary nature of these relationships based on faith, hope, and charity, and because of the unique separate status of the ordained ministers. These temporal relationships are not without a spiritual counterpart and effect. The virtue required to maintain the unique status of the Church should never be overlooked. Other systems may cause the word of God to have none effect." Free Church Report.
Separated
"The ordained minister of God, who has separated himself out of the world by dedicating himself to the mission and service of Jesus the Christ, mutually recognizes and accepts the submission to His Service, by and for the people. The precept of loving one another as Christ loved you is not limited within the congregation of the local Church. To share in the whole body of the Church it is essential that each congregation and Church care about other churches as much as they care about themselves." Free Church Report
"When Christ, like Moses, called out and appointed His ministers they became one body belonging to God under the conditions laid down by God through Moses and Jesus. Any nfranchisement[1] of the ordained ministers by the corporate State would provide a nexus for the State to assume a role of authority within the whole body or corpus of the Church. Even the state recognizes that the legal process of applying for benefits by ordained ministers must be universal and irrevocable.[2] Free Church Report
Yoked to the world
"Many of the people seeking the kingdom are entangled in Yoke of bondage, debt, surety, and memberships. The Ordained Ministers in congregations, living under Christ’s commands, must be unbound in their ministry just as they are bound to Christ. In His Church, the overseers in congregations that may be called orders of the Church neither exercise authority nor stand between God and man’s righteous worship. But they do stand between those men who would be gods over neighbors and brothers. The ordained minister must remain foreign to the world - in it, but not of it."
"In this divine arrangement established by God, there is a balance of choice and power." Free Church Report
"The Church is a system of charity, faith, and hope, under the perfect law of liberty. The ordained ministers and overseers are benefactors who do not exercise authority, one over the other. They are supported according to their service.[3] The kingdom of God is about choice and the exercise of divine discretion by those who are served according to the hearts and minds given them by God."
Relationships
"There must be an ongoing nurtured relationship of congregation, minister, and overseer to maintain the unique status of the Church in the eyes of God and the world. These precepts and relationships are manifest in thousands of ways, and are the foundation of an ancient system of voluntary government taught by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, in order to set men free - and maintain that freedom under God. There are extensive resources available from the Church to assist in the biblical pursuit of liberty." Election, Acceptance, Recognition and Assignment of the Church, Free Church Report
Belong to God only
"All the ordained ministers of the Church gave up any personal estate or wealth to follow in the service of God. This had been true for Christ,[4] the apostles,[5] and new ministers138 of the Church the same as it had been for the Levites[6] called out by Moses to serve the tents of the congregations. This was necessary to maintain a government of service as was the network of small intimate congregations."
"The true overseers of the Church remained faithful, refusing Faith-Based initiative of the emperor not only for the Church, but for themselves. They were not masters of those they served, but servants of Christ by serving those they ministered unto. The highest overseer is servant of servants." The Poor Overseers of a Free Church, Free Church Report. [7]
His Church and His Congregations Q and A
Question: How does that kingdom relate to His Holy Church?
"The Church in its most general sense is the Kingdom of God on earth. It consists of every man and women in their respective Families, freely congregating. And it includes several kinds of Minister and their families in a network of service. Each family and family member is an altar of clay serving the community while the ministers are living stones that minister to the whole community including widows and orphans and families and communities with special needs. The Ordained Ministers act as a representative body for the people in free congregations." Free Church Report.
Question: What must an individual do to become an ordained minister?
Answer: They must obey the requirements of Jesus Christ according to His calling and be recognized by an ordained minister of the Church. This usually involves the laying on of hands, anointing with oils or some form of recording of the event by witnesses or documentation within a congregations of ordained ministers called an Order. Free Church Report.
"There were specific requirements voiced by Christ for those who he was to appoint or ordain as ministers of His kingdom. If the ministers of a government cannot exercise authority or compel the offerings of the people and are not allowed to hold land as their personal property a decidedly different government is formed. If those leaders are chosen in a network answerable to heads of ten families the entire nature of both men and government begins to change. Under these conditions the people are empowered, but must seek God’s righteousness. The ministers are only supported by the good will of the people they serve which is freely provided if they truly are serving the people." The Riches of the Ministry.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Enfranchise (v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman
- ↑ See rules on filing an SS16 and His Church Minister’s Manual.
- ↑ An amount “according to his service.” Numbers 7:5. Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
- ↑ 2 Corinthians 8:9 “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”
- ↑ Matthew 13:44, 19:2; Mark 10:21; Luke 12:33, 18:22, 14:33 “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”
- ↑ Acts 4:36... 5:11. “... Joses ...a Levite, Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet... But a certain man named Ananias... kept back part of the price... fell down, and gave up the ghost”
- ↑ Emperor Constantine and his Faith-Based Initiatives
Emperor Constantine the Great, who reigned from 306 to 337 CE, implemented policies that significantly impacted the status of what people began to think was Christianity within the Roman Empire. While the term "faith-based initiative" is a policy or program that involves collaboration between government and faith-based organizations (FBOs) to address social issues and offer services.