{"id":246,"date":"2004-04-18T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/ordination\/"},"modified":"2004-04-18T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T23:05:55","slug":"ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/ordination","title":{"rendered":"Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First the baby update: Dana is doing well. My mom (who is currently visiting) has dressed her in an outfit that I apparently used to wear, and that\u2019s rather charming. Anyway, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/gallery\/view_album.php?set_albumName=dana\">new photos online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the personal news: Monday evening at 6:30pm I\u2019m going to be ordained as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag.org\/\">Assemblies of God<\/a> minister.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re curious about the administrative backstory, this means that I\u2019ve now maxed out my ministerial certifications. I\u2019ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/ag.org\/top\/about\/bylaws_06_07.cfm#SpecificQualifications\">a licensed minister<\/a> for a number of years, and I\u2019m now being upgraded to full ordination. It\u2019s like going from a master\u2019s to a Ph.D., except that I didn\u2019t have to write and defend hundreds of pages of academic drivel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I merely had to defeat three ninjas in armed combat. Pretty standard stuff for a college minister, I have to&nbsp;say.<\/p>\n<p>Ordination doesn\u2019t really change anything for me as far as my ministerial functions (the Assemblies of God has been eroding the distinctions between licensing and ordination) or legal standing (I could officiate at weddings, for example, before this), but it is pretty cool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Getting ordained reflects a sort of commitment to the movement. It\u2019s not the same thing as going from being engaged to being married, but that\u2019s not a horrible analogy. Continuing the metaphor, it\u2019s a bit unfortunate from a commitment perspective that the Assemblies of God can be a bit of a&nbsp;tart\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, it\u2019s a great movement (with some admittedly deep flaws) and I\u2019m proud to be receiving my ordination from&nbsp;them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First the baby update: Dana is doing well. My mom (who is currently visiting) has dressed her in an outfit that I apparently used to wear, and that\u2019s rather charming. Anyway, there are new photos online. Now for the personal news: Monday evening at 6:30pm I\u2019m going to be ordained as an Assemblies of God \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/ordination\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cOrdination\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}