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An updated ecumenical figuring out of the Church and its ministry that cuts throughout divisions among Catholic and Evangelical, Anglican and Reformed, and comprises the ministry of either women and men.
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I. 3f; Heb. 3) was incarnated in the infant Jesus, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. The whole Godhead dwelt ao*fiaTocd»s in Christ Jesus (Col. 50). But as such Jesus Christ was also the New Man, the Last Adam, the Head of a new race gathering up all humanity in Himself (Eph. io; Rom. 15^ i Cor. 2if, 45), and in Him that new humanity pressed toward its universalisation or catholicisation (pleroma} in the resurrection of Christ and His ascension to fill all things (Eph. 10). It was as such that He sent out His Spirit upon the Church begetting it and assuming its existence in space and time into communion with His own existence in the Body which He assumed for Himself in the Incarnation, and determining its form and course in space and time in accordance with His own life and work in the Body.
The Apostles are hinges in two senses, as Twelve Disciples, and as Twelve Apostles. (a) As Twelve Disciples they are the hinges between the Old Israel with its Twelve Patriarchs and Tribes, and the New Israel which is reconstituted in them as the Body round the Messiah-King. In this sense the Apostles are the authoritative link between the Old Testament Revelation and the New Testament Revelation. It is on the ground of the Apostolic witness that the Old Testament is subsumed under the New 27 Testament Revelation, so that the Church is founded on the Apostles and Prophets.
This is Royal Priesthood, in the coincidence of Grace and Omnipotence, in the identity of Person and Work. As such it is as unique as God Himself. (b) Both parts of priesthood are fulfilled for us. The act of God in Christ for us, and the act of man in Christ for us, are inseparable, in an atonement of substitutionary nature. It is not only that as Son of God, or Apostle from God, Christ has done for us what we could not do, but that as High Priest in our humanity He has done for us what we could not do.