The church was first known as the people of the Way (Acts 9:2). The “Way” these people embraced was the way of Jesus—the way of power in weakness for the sake of love. This was not a loosely connected group of individuals, a social club of sorts, but a family united in Christ (Eph. 2:19). It is this ancient family that we now are a part of in Christ by the Spirit. We are bound together as those who live in, through, and for the way. We are the family of the way, called to walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Rom. 8:1–8), called to walk the path of Jesus to the cross
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