Erik Strandness explores what a priesthood of all believers means and what that looks like in practice.

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” (1 Peter 2:9-10)

What does it mean to be a priest? Merriam-Webster defines a priest as “one authorised to perform the sacred rites of a religion especially as a mediatory agent between humans and God”. If we are all called to be priests, then maybe we are also called to be mediators of the relationship between God and the planet Earth. As image-bearers composed of dust and breath, we link the material with the immaterial, the physical with the spiritual, and the immanent with the transcendent. I believe God created us to be priests by not only caring for his earthly temple, but also by helping it raise its voice of praise…. (Register to read the rest of the article)