Why in your opinion is there a tendency with some believers to dispise prophesyings and prophets?I, actually, don't believe that there is a general tendency, within the christian church, to despise prophesyings and prophets, although there are those within the body who believe that the time for prophecy has passed, per I Corinthians 13:8 ...
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease, where there are tongues, they will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it shall pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.There are those which conclude that perfection is the Bible. But, again, this is not the orthodox view.
However, prophecy, in the church, will always be subject to the tests of a prophet, given by God in the Old Testament.
You may say to yourselves, ... "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come to pass, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him. Deuteronomy 18:21-22