Ministry in the 21st Century.

"As the Father has sent me, so send I you", said Jesus to His disciples at the end of His earthly ministry as He breathed on them and gave them the Holy Spirit. He the Messiah (the anointed Prophet, Priest and King) gives to us the same Spirit with which His own humanity was anointed for service at His baptism. 

Through the Holy Spirit then the Church is to share in Christ's ministry. 

First it is called to share in his prophetic ministry by bringing the Word of God to bear upon the affairs of nations peoples and individuals so they can understand the purposes of God and turn back to his ways of truth, justice and mercy. 

Second it must share in the priestly ministry of Christ as it - in its gatherings - confesses its own sins and the sins of the world, praying for forgiveness and ministering the presence of God to all people in its worship.

Third it must share in the kingly ministry of Christ as it proclaims the gospel to all peoples, calling for faith, repentance and obedience and warning of the coming kingdom of God when nations and individuals will face God's judgement. 
 

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