offices are given to the church: To prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up. This passage speaks boldly to the twentieth century church. Somehow, somewhere, an idea emerged and became very popular in the Christian community; so popular in fact, that it has now become almost an iron-clad tradition. It is that the ministry of the church is to be done by the paid, professional, theologically-trained clergy. According to this view, the whole purpose of the