This being Lent, and being interested in the discipline of fasting, I came across this interesting bit in The Form of Presbyterial Church Government of the Westminster Standards. In the section on the Doctrine of Ordination, it says “Every minister of the word is to be ordained by imposition of hands, and prayer, with fasting, by those preaching presbyters to whom it doth belong.” Yet I have never heard of an ordination process or committee that does this routinely. Do you? The citations in include Acts 13:3 and 14:23 where elders were ordained with prayer and fasting.