Spiritual freedom in concrete form (Acts 1:15-17, 21-26)
In Acts, the gospel takes on organizational structure.
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The body language of the church communicates the gospel—through the movements of the body of Christ, the way people get together and worship God and offer their lives as a blessing for the world. “The chuch knows God by revealing him,” explains Dom Sebastian Moore in God Is a New Language (1967). “She does not know God first and then pass on what she knows. Her style of knowing depends on, is, her bodying-forth of the eternal Word.”
