[RobbyS]

And I just recited to you the rest of the story. That story that the spirit moved particular men to preach the Gospel, to carry the message top the ends of the earth. Look at the cast of characters: Peter, James, Stephen, Phillip the Deacon, Paul. The world did not, as perhaps they expected, come to Jerusalem. Events tended to scatter them, and to send them to the ends of the world. We can surmise that many of those who had know him in Galilee saw the Risen Lord, and spread the Word. We can surmise that many who were converted on Pentecost returned to their homes and told what they had experienced. But Scriptures focuses on particular men, and how they reached out beyond the people of Israel to the whole world. And it was the Lord who set this all into motion.

[1000 silverlings]

Christ did not ordain Alexander the Great, yet because of him, the gospel was carried far and wide by the Greeks. At any rate, the church is composed of all who repent and believe, period. The superstitious rites of an institution has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Nor are you born into it, as Catholics believe.