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The central question in the ecumenical debate is this: what is the nature of the Church? Lesslie Newbigin sketches the present context of the discussion and touches on the Biblical meaning of the word “Church.” He then presents the Protestant, Catholic, and Pentecostal answers to this question. Ultimately, he argues that the Church is at once eschatological and missionary—and both aspects imply...

of a multitude of individual decisions. The importance of this point is very obvious when we come to deal with the teaching of St. Paul about the body, to which we turn in a moment. It is also significant in this connection that in the Gospels and Acts, while faith is in general required of those upon whom Christ performs His mighty works of healing, it is clear that the faith of family and friends, the faith of a group, may be as important as or more important than that of the individual. The paralytic
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