A few weeks ago I asked the congregation if there were any ministers in the audience. To the credit of one gal, who was cogzinant of my question and the biblical teaching, she slowly raised her hand (half way). Soon all the others sitting next to her raised their hands. Later I was told the one gal who raised her hand first told the others, "...hey, this is a trick question." The other two hundred assembled that day didn't raise their hand. That's significant.

If the Xians assembled in the catacombs in first century were asked the same question what they would do? Would they look around for their "Minister" or would they all raise their hands without giving the question a second thought?

I've decided that the primary problem among Xians today is not apathy, although there may be plenty of that, but institutional forms that have usurped the "priesthood of all believers" to the point that Xians don't even know the teaching, much less practice it! No wonder we don't understand **"road stories."

****In the last half of Luke’s story and throughout the book of Acts we encounter a series of “road stories.” Everyone is going somewhere: Jesus on the Emmaus, Philip on the road to Gaza, Peter on the road to Cornelius, Paul on the road to Damascus. These road stories beg an answer to the question; where is everyone going? The answer is they are moving away from their spiritual center, Jerusalem, and out into the world.