Which acts represent ordination in church activity?

• A. Receiving credentials from a denomination
• B. Baptism of new converts
• C. Annual congregational meeting
• D. The laying on of hands and sending ministers forth by the Holy Spirit in response to divine calling

Answer: (D)

Ordination is the ceremonial commissioning of church leaders, recognizing a divine calling and authorizing them to serve in ministry. The act that best fits this is laying on of hands and sending ministers forth by the Holy Spirit in response to that calling, because this rite embodies both the church’s acknowledgment of the call and the empowerment and sending of the individual into ministry. The other options operate in related but different areas: receiving credentials from a denomination is administrative recognition rather than the church’s ordination rite; baptism of new converts is about initiating believers, not ordaining leaders; and an annual congregational meeting concerns governance and decision-making, not ordination.