phenomenalist fashion, but as the appointed means by which God continues through his Spirit to address his living Word to us and speak to us personally and directly about himself in such a way that he is immediately present to us in his Word. Although the Word of God is communicated to us today in this indirect way through the documented witness of the Apostles in the Scriptures, it is no less his very Word that we hear directly from the mouth of God. Before we proceed to ask what the New Testament