What We Need to Know About Ordination

Luke is indeed telling us what we need to know about ordination. He's not telling us everything we need to know (I was right about that); that has to be found by comparing Scripture with Scripture and putting together pieces from all over, especially the pastoral epistles. But he is correcting my assumptions and the questions I was asking, and he is highlighting some fundamentally important truths about prophet-teachers and about the church. So rather than looking for certainty about particular individuals, or a roadmap to ministry success, we should be looking at the lessons Luke has for us. They revolve around the place of teachers in the church and how the church obeys the Spirit in unleashing missionaries for service. Christ reigns over His church by teaching her, and by commanding her to unleash her best teachers for service elsewhere.