Body language, however, is loud and clear. Actions of compassion, concern, and assistance not only communicate God's love, but they also create God-listeners. As challenging as it is to fulfill our priestly calling, the challenge to fulfill our prophetic calling is more daunting. We are to be spokespersons who apply the ethical principles of God to life both personal and social. We are to perceive the damage done by injustice, racism, greed, sexual misbehavior, misuse of power.
Evil is entrenched in a society with an appetite for consumption reminiscent of ancient Rome.
In an attempt to avoid controversies with powerful people with vested interests who people our pews, there has been an ominous sound of silence from the pulpit. He was amazed by the fact that our churches had cushions in their pews. Over fifty years ago that masterful scholar James Adams reminded us that the Priesthood of Believers, which is so dear to Baptist insights and so threatened in our day needs to be matched by the Prophethood of the Believers. We have long held to the idea of the priesthood of all believers, the idea that all believers have direct access to the ultimate resources of the religious life and that every believer has the responsibility of achieving an explicit faith for free persons. As an element of this radical laicism we need also a firm belief in the prophethood of all believers in which persons think and work together to interpret the signs of the times in the light of their faith .Only through the prophetism of all believers can we together foresee doom and mend our common ways.