The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 026 (March 23, 2025)

Most Christians refer to their ministers as priests. Even some in the Protestant community do so.
But some Protestants harshly denounce this and say that all Christians are priests.

This is known as the “priesthood of all believers,” and they have verses in the New Testament to back it up!

Do these verses really show that all Christians are priests and there are not meant to be any ministers known as priests? In this episode, Jimmy Akin provides a dramatic reversal and shows you the surprising truth about what these verses actually mean . . . what they indicate about the priesthood in both the Old and the New Testament . . . and how famous Protestant scholar N. T. Wright is actually correct on this subject.

Timecodes

00:00 – Coming Up
00:27 – Intro
01:00 – 1 Christian Priests?
02:29 – 2 “The Priesthood of All Believers”?
05:09 – 3 The Origin of the Model
08:46 – 4 A Biblical Basis for the Model?
20:03 – 5 Exodus 19
10:46 – 6 Revising the Models
13:22 – 7 Catholic Teaching on the Priesthood
15:35 – 8 Which Model Is Correct?
17:06 – 9 Verses Supporting the Ministerial Priesthood
21:03 – 10 N.T. Wright Weighs In
24:13 – Closing/Outro
25:08 – End