in mirroring and maintaining the ministry of Jesus and have accorded them full status as apostles.70 In considering Luke’s view of the origin and purpose of the Church, two points can be made. First, an unavoidable conclusion to be drawn from this chapter is that from Luke’s perspective the Church has its origin in the ministry of Jesus and is recreated by the risen Jesus to be the renewed people of God.71 In the simple unaided call of the apostles and the collection of them around
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