Positions vacant: prophets, priests, kings

http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/mission/missionthinking/positions_vacant_prophets_priests_kings/

[sydneyanglicans.net] 26 Oct 2008--Many of us have read or heard Mark Driscoll’s 18 obstacles to evangelism which we face in Sydney. Mark certainly set a cat amongst the pigeons while he was here with us. I thank him for the insightful diagnosis of our situation, while having some questions about some of the solutions.

One obstacle (his number 12) particularly took my attention. He said churches need prophets, priests and kings, according to 1 Peter 5, where Jesus is chief shepherd, and the leaders are under-shepherds under Him. In Mark Driscoll’s model Prophets do the preaching and teaching, priests look after people (for example, hospital visits), and kings are concerned with systems, policies, procedures, real estate and the like.