In the Old Testament, the prophets proclaimed God’s plans and purposes to the people of Israel. But as I look at the end of the Gospels, at the giving of the Great Commission, Jesus’s ascension, and then the beginnings of the early church in Acts, it is clear that God has called His church to be the prophetic voice in our society today. Peter and James, in particular, write that God is calling out His church to be His people who bear His name and relay His will and purposes to the world (see 1 Pet. 4 and James 2).
