This is not a school on ‘prophecy’ per se, so much as on the prophetic community, with all that implies, morally and spiritually, to Christ’s people. Of course we will examine the matter of prophecy itself, as the ministry given to Israel provides, to a certain extent, the active pattern against which we will see ourselves. But in doing so we should not be diverted by technicalities since the overall goal is to exhort and encourage all to see ourselves as, and so in faith to be, the prophetic community, alive to the word of God and eager to preach it. Of course, where technicalities aid our understanding of the written word then we are glad to receive them.