Early in the Book of Acts, there’s a lull filling the time between the stories of Jesus ascending and the Holy Spirit descending. But while nothing happens in those fifteen verses that’s as startling as Ascension or Pentecost, they give us the first glimpse of church life, whose ordinary routines point beyond their own banality to our transcendent God.
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