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Employment opportunity: Local prophet

08.23.05 | Comment?

Clyde Grubbs gets his prophet on:  What if your local congregation decided to hire out a prophet? 

…prophets arise when human beings seek to be in right relationship with each other, and find the social and political arrangements of their time to be corrupt, violent, and dehumanizing.  The prophetic woman or man being an embodied person will experience these dysfunctions as immoral, as violations of their deepest values, and respond with anger.  Being human they will respond emotionally, and convey that raw, irrational emotion to all who behold their witness.  Rage not rational calculation is the mark of the prophet.  And because of that emotional response, she will tap into the anger that lies in the hearts of many of her contemporaries who will experience the prophet speaking for their deepest values, their ultimate concerns.  They will experience her as embodying their own anger and hatred for wrong doing, corruption, and misuse of power.  And she will call forth many others to prophecy.

It is all so messy and so unpredictable.  No well managed search committee would choose such a person.

Sounds kinda like this guy.

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