The Church was not able to hold on to its first organizational structure in large degree because it didn’t have the instructional resources to manage a Church that size. But now we have the Bible, and twenty centuries of truly excellent reflection on it by some of the greatest minds in human history, all of it embedded in the Mass that is celebrated millions of times a day all over the world.

We know what hour it is, too. It is the hour of confession, not concession; conversion, not diversion; not passive accompaniment, but active witness. It is the time to make Jesus bigger.

The gospel has always been about movement. Christians eventually used the Roman roads to spread across the Roman Empire. Later they would use ships to cross the sea to new lands like North America.