Sunday, 22 March 2009

'No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.' (Jeremiah 31:34)
Will this always be a dream? We know that - in the United Reformed Church, in common with many denominations, we believe in the 'priesthood of all believers' - no-one needs to know God on our behalf, for we can all do so. Yet the ministry seems to gravitate to a 'high-priestly' kind of role.
I guess the thought is, 'why keep a dog and bark yourself?' Maybe it's human nature.
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  1. janetlees23 March 2009 at 03:36

    It seems to me that ministry is 'the ones that do it openly'. Of course what they are doing is another question and whether they are doing ministry another one on top of that. This morning one year 11 said, as the picutres of the crosses came up, 'We've got religion today' and I thought I get it everyday (although that begs a definition of religion - see JRF project on that one). But that's how I see it - I do religion everyday, for better for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health... well you get the picture. Everyday I am called to 'know the Lord' and make the Lord known.

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