Slides: Officiant Skills in Ministry Duties

Officiant Skills in Ministry Duties

Henry Reyenga

Duties, Ceremonies, and Prayers

Baptisms and Dedications

Funerals

The Lord’s Supper

Profession of Faith

Confession of Sin

Visitation and prayers

Spiritual Warfare

Emceeing Events with God Invited

Sending Out Armies of Ministers

Psalms 134:1    Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

Sending Out Trained Ministers

1 Timothy 4:4-8 

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer. 

If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed. 

Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly. 

For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

Godliness for Ministers

1 Timothy 3:16   Beyond all question, the mystery of godliness is great:

  He appeared in a body,

was vindicated by the Spirit,

was seen by angels,

was preached among the nations,

was believed on in the world,

was taken up in glory.

The Need for Ritual

Ritual and habits are a core behavior in all of our lives. 

Deuteronomy 6:7   Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Ministers for Specific Duties

Genesis 14:18     Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High,

Ministers for Specific Duties

1 Chronicles 26:12     These divisions of the gatekeepers, through their chief men, had duties for ministering in the temple of the LORD, just as their relatives had.

Ministers for Specific Duties

Romans 15:16  to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles with the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Uniforms

The Minister Team Uniforms

Exodus 28:4   These are the garments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban and a sash. They are to make these sacred garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so they may serve me as priests.

Exodus 35:19   the woven garments worn for ministering in the sanctuary—both the sacred garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons when they serve as priests.”

Volunteer, Part-time, or Career

Acts 18:3   and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.

Deuteronomy 18:4   You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, ⁵ for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD’S name always.