[Forest Keeper]

The scriptural method of "sending" is sacramental imposition of hands (Acts 6); we also expect unity of doctrine ("is Christ divided?"), and on that basis exclude those who are separated from the Church either sacramentally or doctrinally.

For purposes of "sending", is there scriptural evidence that Jesus laid hands upon the Apostles? Acts 6 says that men were going to be sent, and that they were prayed over and hands were laid upon them. I didn't see how the laying of hands was THE signature of the sending. God does all the sending Himself. He sent all believers in the Great Commission without the physical laying of hands.

[kosta50]

He sent all believers in the Great Commission without the physical laying of hands

No, FK,

"Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted [Mat 28:16-17]

So, the Great Commission applies to the remaining Apostles, and even among them some did not believe. Where did you get "all believers" from?

[annalex]

is there scriptural evidence that Jesus laid hands upon the Apostles?

None, like all other sacraments, the Holy Orders was something the exact form of which the Church developed after the Pentecost. There is nothing magical in laying of hands per se, just like there is nothing magical in eating bread or taking a bath. They become sacraments when the Church attaches a prayer that asks the Holy Ghost to bring grace to it.