Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Vicar. A word you know; a word that I know. But, do we actually know what it means? Many may answer that vicar means priest or minister - as in the leader of a church. The sobering truth is that it actually means something quite different...
Priest is fairly close, but in the sense of "one who stands between". Vicar is a shortened version of the word vicarious, which means "serving instead of someone or something else". It can be argued that vicar is a good word since we often experience GOD through our church leaders, we experience worship and teaching through their gifting.
