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At a time in which the very word church sounds a tone of dull irrelevance, the doctrine of the church has suffered the studied neglect of many Christian leaders. The persistent demands to market, manage and grow the church and to meet the felt needs of churched and unchurched all threaten to quench theological reflection on the abiding nature and mission of the church. But few activities bear...

building his own temple of living stones (1 Pet. 2:5; Eph. 2:21). Further, the abiding presence of the Spirit joins the church together into one. There is but one holy temple of the Lord, one body of Christ where the Spirit dwells. The Spirit binds the church together in the unity of a common life. In Paul’s letters, this unity is applied especially to the joining together of Jews and Gentiles (Eph. 2:11–22). In the power of the Spirit, the church went from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria and the ends
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