Thursday, March 13, 2008

wow...

Wow...Thank you all for the previous encouraging comments and love.

Well...the thing is, you can call me pastor/leader to describe my position to your friends/family. But I rather you all just call me Jack.

The day Impact Harvest Church started, I have "officially" become the pastor/leader in the eyes of our mother church; now the ordination that was brought up by Rev. LT to "officially" ordain me as a Reverend is because he thinks that I need to be recognized by the other church leaders.

That way, they might not ask us to "merge" with their churches; the treatment we receive would be different. Impact has not been treated as a "church" because we are a bunch of young ppl without an "official" Reverend.
In ordination, other church Reverends will need to attend and "officially" lay hands on me then proclaim and acknowledge my position and role. Besides, only the ordained (means certified) Reverend can perform marriage; who wants me to perform their marriage?

Ephesians 4:11-12
"And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ."

In the church, there are spiritual leaders whose job is to equip us for ministry. That's also my job. If calling me pastor makes you feel more involved in the ministry, then call me pastor. If not, just call me Jack.

Ordination will be performed in the near future as Impact grows stronger.

4 comments:

johnny said...

Reverend .....woah,....when are you going to be Chaplain or Bishop?

+J Lin's Journey to Heaven+ said...

Jack

jasypants said...

fascinating. you'll soon be able to do marriages. how would you feel about that?? ^___^ haha. i'll call you both. makes me feel like you're up there and yet you're still like us. i onno if that made sense because im out of it right now but yeah. :] Rev. Jack. i like the tone of it.

Anonymous said...

jack.



gosh...title?



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