Ben posts some characteristically helpful comments on the relation between baptism and ordination:
Since baptism is itself vocation to discipleship, ordination — or preparation for ordination — can often become a denial of baptism.
- If you want to be ordained in order to become a really serious and committed disciple of Christ, then you have denied your baptism.
- If you want to be ordained in order to progress beyond ordinary discipleship, then you have denied your baptism.
- If you want to be ordained in order to “serve the Lord full-time”, then you have denied your baptism.
For more on this, see the work of William Stringfellow.
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