Third, we teach the reality of Jesus risen, his actual existence now as a person who is present among his people. We present him in his ecclesia, his motley but glorious crew of called-out ones. We trace him from those uncomprehending encounters on the first Easter morning and on through the amazingly different historical periods of the church. But we also show him now active among his disciples. Who he is, is revealed in an essential way in his people. So the continuing incarnation of the divine Son in his gathered people must fill our minds if we are to love him and his Father adequately and
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