Getting Ordination Right: Essential Elements of Ordination in the Bible and History

Getting Ordination Right addresses the basic questions: What are the essential elements of ordination? How is ordination practiced in the Bible and in the church throughout its history? How should it be practiced today?

Steve Paulus has served in pastoral ministry for over thirty years. He is pastor of Staunton Grace Covenant Church in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Steve lived with his wife and three children in Croatia in the 1990s where he taught and served as the dean of the Evangelical Theological Seminary (ETS) in Osijek. He teaches regularly at the Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary (UETS) in Kiev, Ukraine and leads the Institute for Pastoral Studies in affiliation with ETS. He and his wife, Jane, have three children and seven grandchildren. Steve has earned a DMin from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, MA, an MDiv, and an MA in nonprofit law and management from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA.