Perhaps Jesus was a bit too wild for the Church. It was easier to expound on Paul’s letters, for instance. Ah, Paul, here was a finely tuned mind, a man of practicalities. Jesus probably didn’t know that we had bills to pay, budgets to meet, programs to run, bylaws to discuss, deacons to nominate, culture to influence, public-opinion battles to wage, doctrine to parse, lines to draw in the sand to mark who was in and who was out.
