3070:4
From Wesleyan Discipline
- (4) Examination by the district board of ministerial development relative to qualifications for the ministry and for ordination (cf. 3000–3006; 3070:1–3), including a personal religious experience, ministerial call, and evidence thereof, matters of education, doctrine, and practice, particularly a personal commitment without reservation to each of the Articles of Religion and the Membership Commitments and loyalty to The Wesleyan Church, and circumstances of personal, family, and business life which bear upon the ministry; and a subsequent report by the district board of ministerial development to the district conference (1390:1, 5).