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In Rooted & Grounded, Abraham Kuyper describes the dual calling of the Christian Church. The Church needs to be rooted—a living organism that grows freely. And the Church needs to be grounded—an institution with strong foundations to keep it from collapsing. This message is the first sermon Kuyper gave to his congregation in Amsterdam.

From the organism the institution is born, but also through the institution the organism is fed. “Go, teach all nations and baptize them.” “Teach and baptize,” says the founding document of that institution. “Word and Sacrament”—behold the foundational parameters of the design according to which the institution is constructed. For neither the proclamation of that Word nor the administration of that sacrament is an organic operation. They presuppose human consciousness; they need human organization;