Not to long ago I heard a presenter speaking on missions. He seemed to have a hang up on AC 14, as if it overstepped scripture or something. I've been thinking about this presentation for sometime now.
Here is my thought. If you think the confessions are an impediment to missions than you probably don't know them well enough, or what it is you are wanting to do is probably not beneficiary to the church, or Christ whose body the church is. The confessions are drawn from scripture, straight from scripture. They go through great pains not to overstep scripture, but to expound upon it.
If you have a problem with some part of the confessions it should be grounds for you to seriously reconsider your position. They are there for a reason. If like a fence they are keeping you from going somewhere, than that somewhere just might be a place you shouldn't be going. You might investigate why that fence was put up before you jump over it and get bitten by the junkyard dog.
For instance, AC 14 might be used by a few as some sort of job security measure for more or less selfish motives, but in the end it has the sheep, the gospel, and even missions in mind not the under shepherds, and it wouldn't be there without a considerable amount of scriptural support. Perhaps that is a paper for another day, one I'm sure has been written elsewhere. But the pastoral office was instituted by Christ for the sake of the sheep, for the sake of missions and evangelism, and if you have a problem with it, be sure of what it is saying before you mock it.
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