prone to think in terms of the beginning, and functioning of the Body, (Acts 2), with almost total oversight given to the Head? Finally, are we overlooking the fact -that the role taken by Christ as the Head of the Body began with the fulfillment of His own prophetic utterance, when He said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said," John 2:19-22. It is because of the Words, "He is risen," (Matthew 28:6), that the Body is an actuality, and can re-
Body receives instructions and di rectives. It is the Lord Jesus Christ upon whom the Body is depen dent if it is to function properly. It is the Lord Jesus Christ, (and I say this with no intention of being irreverent), who is the " 'brain' of this operation," John 16:14, 15. (In this analogy perhaps I could sug gest that the Holy Spirit would be the "nervous system" of the Body). In light of this possibility I find myself asking the question, "Is it possible that part of the confusion in the Body today is its attempt to make the nervous system respon sible for a ministry not its own, even minimizing in some cases the responsibility of the Head? This question is followed by a second one, "Is it possible that when we think in terms of the beginning of the Church, we are
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