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"There was not a needy person among them ..."
The Gnostics are always with us, are they not? They seem to dominate the "comfortable pew" of the late twentieth century. When there is talk of "need," it is usually a psychic or spiritual need. The more earthly needs of battered, weary, inner-city folks are far beyond the suburban horizon. We have reduced our faith to a thing of the heart and maybe of the mind, and ceased to take seriously the ancient Hebrew concept (recovered by contemporary medicine) of the person as a psychosomatic unity.
"There was not a needy person among them ..."
The Gnostics are always with us, are they not? They seem to dominate the "comfortable pew" of the late twentieth century. When there is talk of "need," it is usually a psychic or spiritual need. The more earthly needs of battered, weary, inner-city folks are far beyond the suburban horizon. We have reduced our faith to a thing of the heart and maybe of the mind, and ceased to take seriously the ancient Hebrew concept (recovered by contemporary medicine) of the person as a psychosomatic unity.
