This volume by 19th-century Scottish pastor and theologian Horatius Bonar contains 33 meditations on the gospel in the Book of Acts.
"We connect each planting of a church with what Jesus did and taught," Bonar writes. "Each Church begins just where each sinner begins, with Jesus himself. Other foundation can no man lay; other soil can no church root itself in; round no other centre can any church revolve. Christ is all and in all! Not numbers, nor bulk, nor wealth, nor influence, nor antiquity, nor organisation, nor literature, nor music, nor vestments, nor administrative skill, nor various learning, not all these together make up the glory of a church. For what is the temple if the shekinah be not there? What is a church or congregation if the Holy Ghost, revealing Christ in his grace and glory, be not the indwelling and inworking energy?"
"We connect each planting of a church with what Jesus did and taught," Bonar writes. "Each Church begins just where each sinner begins, with Jesus himself. Other foundation can no man lay; other soil can no church root itself in; round no other centre can any church revolve. Christ is all and in all! Not numbers, nor bulk, nor wealth, nor influence, nor antiquity, nor organisation, nor literature, nor music, nor vestments, nor administrative skill, nor various learning, not all these together make up the glory of a church. For what is the temple if the shekinah be not there? What is a church or congregation if the Holy Ghost, revealing Christ in his grace and glory, be not the indwelling and inworking energy?"
