MSJ 2:2 (Fall 91) p. 173 The reception and propagation of such revelations constituted the foundation of the church universal throughout the present age. Prophets were vehicles for these revelations and held a high profile among early Christians for this reason. Grudem’s words do not match the high status of prophets upheld in the NT: “Prophecy in ordinary New Testament churches was not equal to Scripture in authority, but was simply a very human—and sometimes partially mistaken—report of something