In the Reformation, Christians took a giant step toward recovering the priesthood of the believer. Martin Luther's nailing of his 95 theses to the door of Castle Church in Wittenburg was a prophetic act. The formulation of those 95 theses was a prophetic utterance or statement communicating a divinely inspired insight. Institutionalism keeps metastasizing. The priestly keeps squeezing the life out of the prophetic.
Comfort keeps conquering courage.
The need now is not just for a prophet, an Abraham, a Moses, a Rahab, an Amos, an Isaiah to take his clothes off and go barefoot for three years as sign, or a John the Baptist with his lone voice crying in the wilderness. The need is for an extension of the Reformation, a commitment to the basic agenda of Baptists in the free church tradition, general acceptance of the prophethood of all believers. With this prophethood in place, we can dream dreams and see visions. We can be salt for the earth and light for the world and leaven for the lump. The prophethood of believers can smash idols.