Abstract
“The means of grace tended by the ministers of identity are word and sacraments, the kerygmatic and liturgical responsibilities by which the Name is named and the Body is formed. The means of grace stewarded by the ministers of vitality are the gifts of diakonia and koinonia by which the word takes on flesh and the Body moves. The milieu in which the ministry of identity is primarily exercised is the ‘church gathered,’ and the principal environment of the ministry of vitality is the ‘church scattered.’”
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