Knowing this, with the knowing elaborated and deepened in worship, the church has the necessary room to live robustly under the conditions of resurrection. If we don't know this, the church, its imagination conditioned by death and the devil, will live timidly and cautiously.
Paul places the Ascension focus that Luke established at the threshold of the story of the church's birth and early development by repeating the Ascension imagery, "he ascended on high," as his orienting text for lives formed into a mature resurrection life: the resurrected Jesus rules church and world and every last one
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