The Office of Believers and Bible Study

Ronald J. Van Overloop is a missionary-pastor of the Protestant Reformed Churches in suburban Northwest Chicago. One of the vital issues of the Reformation was the priesthood of all believers. The Reformation abolished the idea that only a select group of men may function as priests. It pointed out that Scripture calls all of the members of the church "priests" (I Peter 2:9) and that each has priestly tasks (Hebrews 13:15, 16). One of the principal duties of priests was to know and to teach the...