Our Church Order: The Office of Minister

The office of Minister is to continue in prayer and in the Ministry of the Word, to dispense the Sacraments, to watch over his brethren, the Elders and Deacons, as well as the Congregation, and finally, with the Elders, to exercise church discipline and to see to it that everything is done decently and in good order. The term office is here the signification not of the office of Ministers of the Gospel as such but rather of the duties belonging to it. The thought conveyed there­fore is: The...