they had carried it even to the ridiculous extreme of believing that God was confined to the temple, so that you could not worship God anywhere else. That is why Stephen started his sermon by saying, “The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia”—before Abraham had ever come to Canaan. The Jews really believed that God was confined to the temple, to the church, as it were. They gloried in being God’s people, the only worshipers of God, the only ones with the oracles