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CHAPTER 3Elders ordain priest and teachers by the laying on of hands. [Between A.D. 400 and 421] |
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| 1 THE manner which the disciples, who were called the aelders of the church, bordained cpriests and teachers— |
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Alma 6:1;
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Elder b TG Church Organization c Mosiah 6:3; TG Priest
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2 After they had prayed unto the Father in the name of Christ, they
alaid their hands upon them, and said:
3 In the name of Jesus Christ I ordain you to be a priest, (or, if he be a ateacher) I ordain you to be a teacher, to preach repentance and bremission of sins through Jesus Christ, by the endurance of faith on his name to the end. Amen.
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Hands, Laying on of 3a TG Teacher b TG Remission of Sins
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4 And after this manner did they aordain priests
and teachers, according to the bgifts and callings of
God unto mena; and they ordained
them by the cpower of the Holy Ghost, which was in them.
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4a callings of God unto men In a day and age when each teenage boy in the church who is active is ordained at the ages of 12, 14 and 16 to be deacons, teachers and priests, we have lost to an extent the sense that these are not merely automatic ordained offices but 'callings of God unto men.' Our youth are not merely ordained to such an office but they need to feel that they are called of God to perform such as are the duties of these offices. It is a calling by and through the order of God, a calling from God. |
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D&C 18:32;
D&C 20:39, 60; TG Priesthood; TG Priesthood, History of b TG God, Gifts of c 1 Ne. 13:37; Moro. 6:9
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