are you guys really serious? really?
The only people on earth who can preach the Word of God must be ordained?
By whom? In what denomination?
Ah - there is the can of proverbial worms.
Suddenly we do not know who is and is not lawfully ordained and so no one can preach the Word. Let the pulpits be silent!
Any and every believer has an obligation to be preaching the Word to their families first and also to the people around them in life and work - teaching, witnessing, instructing, discipling, training, preaching, expounding, exegeting, rightly dividing - whatever you want to call it.
EVERY believer is duty bound in love to Christ to PREACH, PROCLAIM, PROMOTE, PRESENT, PROFESS, PROFUSE, PROJECT, PROMULGATE, PRONOUNCE, PROVE, PROPOGATE, PROPEL, PROPOSE, PROPOUND, and PROTESTATE His Word.
To say that anything and everything "given to the Church" is necessarily restricted in its use to the "ordained" goes beyond the Scriptures and creates classes of Christians. It is anti-reformational. Let the Reformation stop here - the people CANNOT preach.
Disclaimer - I am not speaking of the ordinances as that is a whole other discussion - but only of PREACHING the Word of God.
How dare any of us tell the member sof our church not to preach the Word. Shame. We will be held to account for that grievous bit of ungodly counsel.
Phillip
[Edited on 11-22-04 by pastorway]
The only people on earth who can preach the Word of God must be ordained?
By whom? In what denomination?
Ah - there is the can of proverbial worms.
Suddenly we do not know who is and is not lawfully ordained and so no one can preach the Word. Let the pulpits be silent!
Any and every believer has an obligation to be preaching the Word to their families first and also to the people around them in life and work - teaching, witnessing, instructing, discipling, training, preaching, expounding, exegeting, rightly dividing - whatever you want to call it.
EVERY believer is duty bound in love to Christ to PREACH, PROCLAIM, PROMOTE, PRESENT, PROFESS, PROFUSE, PROJECT, PROMULGATE, PRONOUNCE, PROVE, PROPOGATE, PROPEL, PROPOSE, PROPOUND, and PROTESTATE His Word.
To say that anything and everything "given to the Church" is necessarily restricted in its use to the "ordained" goes beyond the Scriptures and creates classes of Christians. It is anti-reformational. Let the Reformation stop here - the people CANNOT preach.
Disclaimer - I am not speaking of the ordinances as that is a whole other discussion - but only of PREACHING the Word of God.
How dare any of us tell the member sof our church not to preach the Word. Shame. We will be held to account for that grievous bit of ungodly counsel.
Phillip
[Edited on 11-22-04 by pastorway]