The Fifteenth Century of His-Story – The Church Squeezed Through a Genetic Bottleneck

God describes the church that he gathers throughout all history as a beautiful body and a glorious temple. One aspect of that beauty is the diversity and variety of different people that are united into one glorious whole. The entire universal body of believers is united as a spiritual body, and an individual congregation also expresses that beauty and unity as the members serve one another with their unique gifts and bear one another’s burdens (Heidelberg Catechism LD 21). The variety of...