When Jesus died, God ripped apart the magnificent curtains in the temple and its inner, sacred room was exposed as empty (Lk 23:45). That moment captured what was true about the religion that Jesus found in Judah: it had a
Baptised in the Spirit
The Christian church is God’s community on earth. It was not born by human action but by the Lord Jesus sending the power of the Holy Spirit. Acts shows us the three great stages he used to do this (1:8).