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This passage from Numbers is often used to illustrate the doctrine of the Priesthood of All Believers. Moses stated that he wished all God's people could be prophets and preachers. Perhaps the words of P.T. Forsyth should be re-emphasized. "The one great preacher in history, I would contend, is the Church. And the first business of the individual preacher is to enable the Church to preach ... He (she) is to preach to the Church from the Gospel so that with the Church he (she) may preach the Gospel to the world. He (she) is so to preach to the Church that he (she) shall also preach through the Church. That is to say, he (she) must be a sacrament to the Church, that with the Church he (she) may become a missionary to the world." (Richard John Neuhaus, Freedom for Ministry, Harper and Row, 1979, p. 141.) -- Angus
