is not a practice of nostalgia, nor is it an attempt to occlude the developments of this original identity over time. We are not called to simply reduplicate the church of Acts, as if the church in Acts were the only legitimate form; nor could we reduplicate it if we tried. Yet neither are we called to reinvent the wheel, as if our present embodiment of the faith need not have anything to do with the original. Reading Acts through our contemporary ecclesial lenses, then, enables us to see the seeds