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Evangelist Prophet

Anglican Priest In parallel with this new order of prophets came a revision to the priestly order. The apostles developed a pastoral and administrative role as maintainers of the religious order. The great majority of our professional ministers fulfill this role today. Their intended task is not so much to go beyond the church gates with the Good News for those outside, but to give pastoral oversight to the Christian flock who were vested with this evangelistic function. Like the priests of the Old Covenant, these pastors eventually came to be responsible for the ordering of ceremonies, although this was probably not the case with the absence of church buildings during the first three hundred years of the Christian era.

Congregation in church The tragedy is that the role of the evangelist prophet has been largely neglected while the full-time pastoral role has dominated. Perhaps desiring a tight organizational framework, the church has purposely subverted the uncontrollable element of the lay evangelist prophet. The congregation of the faithful were taught that their minister did the work and they sat back and received. Their spiritual gifts were ignored. Today, however, there are hopeful signs that lay evangelism prophet is resurfacing. More priests are encouraging their people to speak out, to be involved in visiting the sick, to use the business skills that few clergy have, to take a lead. So the great body of ordinary Christians is again becoming the prime mover in evangelism, and not the passive recipients of the pastor's ministries. The evangelist prophet is again rightly becoming the minister whom the full-time pastor is building up and supporting!

"The Evangelist Prophet."

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