their time in this work. But they said that suggestion was not acceptable to God or to them. I should like to consider the apostles’ reply because it raises a very contemporary, indeed a most urgent question. Let me therefore put the whole subject in the form of three propositions. Here is the first. We are told here what is the primary task of the Christian church. Now one of the phrases used today—this is an age of phrases—is the phrase, getting your priorities right. We are very fond of saying