Election
These days, if you're elected to the council or the session
It's hardly thought to signify apostolic succession;
And yet, although now church slates rarely come to be contested,
Matthias' choice to fill the slot back then has long attested
To how the hand of God is still at work in churchly calling:
Remember who chose whom, when you to office they're installing!
Scott L. Barton
In
those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd
numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said, “Friends, the
scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit through David
foretold concerning Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested
Jesus— for he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this
ministry....
“So
one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the
Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John
until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these must become a
witness with us to his resurrection.” So they proposed two, Joseph
called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias. Then they
prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of
these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and
apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.” And
they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; and he was added
to the eleven apostles.
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