not represent the most natural way of organizing the biblical testimony. There is the danger that the content of the Bible is forced onto a procrustean bed of classifications that are not themselves drawn from the Bible. For example, the evangelist St. Mark might not have had a conscious or fully worked out “ecclesiology,” but he does have some ideas about the nature of discipleship and appropriate patterns for leadership among Jesus’s followers. The challenge is how to take what Mark actually says
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