Priestly

Since Paul is writing to the Hebrews in this letter, it makes sense that he is constantly referencing rituals that they used in their worship of God--sacrifices and the like. One of the references in chapter 9 of Hebrews is to the High Priest, the head hancho of the priestly sect. In the Protestant tradition we really don't have anything that we can relate to in this way. Maybe our senior pastors, but that still doesn't quite cut it.

Anyways, one of the priests' jobs back then was to make the sacrifices that atone for sins. They had that responsibility and it was theirs alone. Then comes along Protestantism and Martin Luther makes his grand statement about a congregation of priests. We're all priests now, under Christ, and able to make our own sacrifices: our money, our time, our lives. Christ, then, is our High Priest for making the ultimate sacrifice, one that was needed once to clear our sacrifices from the start to the end. It's a convicting thing to know that all of us, no matter whether we have Mr., Miss, Mrs., Rev., Dr., etc. we are responsible as priests to God.