Kingdom of Priests

We began some time ago, considering a young church and problems it was experiencing. It celebrated men and gifts at the expense of others. God, we know, gives men and gifts to enhance, improve and build the family of God as whole and those within the family.

Another aspect of this was expressed as the church would meet many individuals focused on expressing gifts in a way that helped themselves and ignored the others there with them.

The church is a family and a body because no one person can represent Christ alone. It is as the entire body seeks Christ together, serves each other and servers together to touch those outside the family that Christ is proclaimed and demonstrated. It is in the gathering that equipping, serving, loving within and without best takes place.

The current form and structure of the church was developed because corrupting influences were entering the church seeking to blow it apart. And someone decided that the only way to protect it was to turn it over to specialists and experts. That was never God’s intention. God’s intention was everyone is an expert. Everyone equips. Everyone serves. Everyone connects with people outside the family. And everyone works together. It is a nation and a kingdom of priests. Everyone in the family is a priest.

If everyone in the family does not act like a priest, maybe they are not equipped correctly? Or maybe they are into their own thing too much?