Art Katz
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21.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Church?
If apostles and the prophets are the foundation of the church, it would not be wrong to conclude that the superstructure itself must be made of the same substance and kind; that the church in its entirety is itself a prophetic and apostolic phenomenon. It itself is the interpretive agency in the locality where it is, and in the nation where it is, ...read more
22.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Formation and Integrity?
Prophets are foundations for the church, holy stones, as it were, able to bear the weight of all that they support and all that is put upon them. What an investment, therefore, from God's point of view, in the attention to the details of their lives, in the preparation, shaping and making of them. That formation does not lend itself to nice, clean, ...read more
23.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Offense?
There is a prophetic 'offense' that God allows, or even builds in, either something in the man that men can reject or find offense in, or in the message itself. Why would that be, that there is some defect, some weakness or some imperfection in the man or in the message that seems to be invariably part of the prophetic manner? The Scriptures spe ...read more
24.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Perception or Interpretation?
There are two key words inherent to the prophetic calling and they are: revelation and interpretation. If you remove these two things from that which is prophetic, then it no longer is. We have more need than ever of revelation and the interpretation. It is not just the interpretation of the Scripture alone, but also events like natural disasters. ...read more
25.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Proclamation or Speaking?
The Prophetic Continuum
There is, I believe, a prophetic continuum that is the same in every generation. I know that there are New Testament prophets like Agabus, but the kind of prophet that I think is a continuum in the redemption history of the faith is the oracular kind. His word distinguishes his calling. The prophetic word is weighty an ...read more
26.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic Ultimacy?
Here is a summary statement that T. Austin-Sparks makes:
Here is the thing to which the prophetic ministry all-inclusively relates: the original and ultimate purposes of God in and through His people.
We need to have something come into our consciousness as to the meaning of the words, ultimate and God's ultimate purposes and even the church ...read more
27.) The Prophetic Call - What is Prophetic?
What is a Prophet Historically and Presently?
What rises in your own thought and in your own heart when the word 'prophet' is evoked? What image, what sense of things comes to your own understanding? We need to remember that the false prophets were those who wore rough garments to deceive, and that the only reason they could succeed was because ...read more
