07-The All-Body Ministry

As we have seen, church rule and care has been ruined, twisted into
a monstrosity. In tandem – the one feeding off the other – the
priesthood of all believers has been allowed to dwindle into
practical neglect, so that it has become the poor relation of the
Christian religion, rarely discussed, let alone thought about, least of
all acted upon. And for those who do have some concept of it, too
frequently they think of it as an individual thing, a personal thing –
I can go directly to God for myself. A wonderful truth, of course,
but one that fails to exhaust the breadth and depth of meaning of
this priesthood.