[Godsdrummer]

Thank you Sam
I too have the Pentecostal Bible study course. And it is true at one time it was equired reading, along with the book United We Stand I can't remmember it seems there was one other book besides the bible, which had to have been read thru, to obtain your local license. I carried local for four years, as I could preach out with that, I did not get my general till we went to start a Home Missions church, as by UPCI standards one could not pastor or marry or baptize, unless he/she had General license. As I was never out for the title (maybe a little at first, just that I was a minister) I never did get ordained by UPCI although I had completed everything needed. I carried General license for six years. At such time let them go back.

To Ace, Stephenroehm, and Jeffery you can put all the examples you want about what a prophet did or said in OT or NT but as Sam has shown, what we think when we see the word prophet is not what was intened when the writter used the word. From my point of view a prophet would be nothing more than what we call a preacher in many congregations.

I don't have all the answers but I do have more than what most commonly accept as I have been exposed to more of the gifts of the spirit in the last three years than I did in 40+ years in UPCI. So I have made a point to study this in more detail.