they just seemed to form themselves in a way almost totally identical to that of the early church? They had no access to material like this book to guide them—they didn’t even have enough Bibles. I have long pondered this mystery, and I can only suggest that they found it in themselves. Or more accurately, this potent coding is placed within them through the work of the Spirit and by the power of the gospel in the community. There is no other way of explaining this: it was already there, and the
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