There never was such a thing as ordaining a man to preach the gospel. In Scripture, the Lord, and the Lord only, calls men to preach. There is not in the entire New Testament one instance to the contrary. It is positively disorderly, and contrary to the Word of God, for a man to seek a human commission in order to preach the gospel or for taking the place of a teacher in relation to the Christian assemblies.
What I believe to be unscriptural, and indeed positively sinful, is the insisting on a certain ceremony through which a man must pass before he is recognized as properly a minister of Christ.
The effect is this, that it accredits a number of men who are not ministers of Christ and discredits a number of men who are His ministers, because they do not go through that particular innovation.
This is an evil which, derived from the core of Judaism, is the greatest conceivable check to the energy of the Holy Spirit in the church at the present or any other time. [9]