Prayer: The Cornerstone

Recently, I have been re-reading the book of Acts, and inevitably this has led me to do some thinking about that first Christian Church. I have been impressed again by certain things which always strike us every time we look at the subject: the fact, for example, that the first Christians had few of the "helps" which we usually assume as part of the functioning of the church, – no church property, no separated clergy, no acknowledged authority except that based on obvious experience in the ...