itself would not contain the books which were written"
(John 21:25). The world could not contain the books if man
even attempted to reduce to writing the expression of God
in Jesus Christ, which is, of course, impossible. The
activity of God cannot be reduced to volumes written in the
vocabularies of man. The apostle John was combating the
tendency of textualism in the early church.
The historical story continues. Jesus, the living
expression of God, the Word, was crucified in order to take
our death that we might have His life. His death did not
silence the living expression of God. It only served as the
nuclear fusion to explode God's expression unto all men.
For in the resurrection, ascension and Pentecostal
outpouring of Jesus Christ by the Spirit, the personal, living
expression of God, His Word, could spiritually indwell all
mankind as they received Him by faith, man's receptivity of
God's activity.
The early Christians were not propagating a belief-
system. They were not dispensers of theological
information about God. They were not Book-bearers. They
were bearers of the Living Word, the Life, the Person, the
Power of Jesus, "who is the Spirit" (II Corinthians 3:18).
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