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NOTE: This article is meant to accompany the article "I Will Give You Shepherds: Addressing the Priest Shortage."
1 posted on 05/15/2003 10:05:43 PM PDT by Salvation
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I Will Give You Shepherds: Addressing the Priest Shortage
2 posted on 05/15/2003 10:10:12 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Is There a Priest Shortage?

Only if you define "priest" according to the institutional, unbiblical definition...

Martin Luther only partially resurrected the biblical concept of the priesthood of all believers (it was never really put into practice): {Jesus}"has made US to be a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father" (Rev. 1:6)and the original priest, Peter, said: "...you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood...But you are a chosen PEOPLE, a royal priesthood, a holy NATION, a PEOPLE belonging to God..." (1 Pet. 2:5, 9).

So when is the church-at-large going to kick it into biblical gear & stop defining priests as garbed single men who hear confessions (James says to confess your sins to ONE ANOTHER)? It's only been Satan's 2000-year strategy to reduce the force of which he has to fight.

"No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs--he wants to please his commanding officer." (2 Tim. 2:4)

Sorry, folks. No such thing as "only" a lay person. LAOS in Greek= people of God. Peter says "people of God"=priesthood. No such thing as "only" civilians in the pews. All are priest-soldiers in God's army. No such thing as "volunteers" in churches. Bible knows of no such words. Only disciples, believers, brothers, etc.

4 posted on 05/16/2003 4:31:44 PM PDT by Colofornian
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