Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, February 27, 2011

Ordination

By Mathew Robuck


There is nothing more satisfying than to officiate at weddings and other events, and teaching children. If this is your calling then you should become an ordained minister. To be ordained means to be able to perform ministerial duties and all sacred functions and start his or her church that will receive recognition.

It is not enough to just study for the ministry or to know by instinct about the word of God; you have to become ordained and then get a license to validate your ability to be a minister. You can receive your ordination online if you receive it from a religious organization that is qualified to give Certificates of Ordination.

As an ordained minister you can have your physical church wherever you want it to be. It can be a store front, a free standing structure, or it can be in your own home. The only requirements are that you must have a congregation and a regular schedule of meetings whether that is once a week, once a month, or a few times a year. The dates and times of those meetings must be posted and strictly followed.

The church you open does not have to follow any particular denomination, it can be totally nondenominational, and the choice is yours. It is important however, that the ordained minister leading that church has knowledge in world religion. He should know about all religions other than the five major religions. He should understand the gaps that have formed between cultures and be well versed in the philosophies and beliefs of the various cultures.

If choosing the ministry as your life's path you have to answer to a calling. If your entering the ministry for financial sustenance or personal gain, then you have chosen the wrong path and will never truly receive true satisfaction from it. An ordained minister that enters the ministry because of a calling will be able to rest assured every night that he has helped someone onto the right path.




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