Yes, both the old and New Testaments give examples of setting God’s appointed leaders into their places of service through public recognition and the laying on of hands for spiritual impartation. In both the tabernacle and temple (as outlined in the old Testament), we find great detail concerning the various orders of ministry. People were selected by virtue of their God-given abilities, called into God’s service, and publicly established in their own place of ministry. This place could be filled by no one else because God himself had prepared the individual to fit into the particular area of service. A. Duties were distributed, making each person a specialist  instead of his trying to do every kind of labor.  

 “And he [David] gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites …. Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD, and six thousand were officers and judges (1 Chronicles 23:2, 4).  

 People were separated to their specific duties by royal appointment; they did not assign themselves to positions. 

“Moreover, David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals; and the number of the workmen according to their service was …” (1 Chronicles 25:1).  

 Since these appointments were from God, they were perpetual except in the case of moral breach. 

“The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name forever “(1 Chronicles 23:13).  

 Even the smallest positions were chosen by lot-that is by divine leadership. 

“Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD. And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate” (1 Chronicles 26:12-13).  

 Appointment for ministry was not a matter of status but of work or service. 

“These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names, by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward” (1 Chronicles 23:24).  

 Notice the difference between the way God chooses leaders and workers and the way men do it. People are always seeking to climb the ladder of success and prestige. But God’s work is based upon calling and qualification to serve. No task, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is to be assigned without seeking God’s guidance. God has a choice for each place; we have no right to appoint anyone, but the one God has chosen from before the foundation of the world. Only the Holy Spirit can make it manifest who God’s choice is for each position.