The Church in the New Testament is long-awaited new issue of one of the most popular and profound works of New Testament scholarship. Throughout the first Christian community the great acts of Jesus were the central reality. And the New Testament as we know it today is simply the record of those acts and of the life of the earliest Christians confessing their Lord. There was, therefore, no break between the living witness and the written expression of it. Each writer in the New Testament was a conscious member of the living Church who wrote with the intention of proclaiming the works of Jesus.