Monday, September 17, 2012

Priesthood of All Believers

Anthropologists tell us that "religion" is a universal cultural reality. Every culture creates a religion. We find religion all around the world, in every culture.

The religions they create have at least two characteristics:
  • people create religious rituals to ceremonialize their devotion
  • people create a religious hierarchy to outsource their religious obligations
We don't want a priesthood and ministry of all believers. Instead, we want people to go to God for us and leaders to do the ministry to us...