There are some problems with terminology here, but this is an interesting observation, made in a
tweet:
Todd Penner points out that Acts is concerned with he church's governmental structures - both symbolic (12th apostle) and practical (the Seven to serve tables, elders in each church).
The scenes of appointment are linked with the spread of the Spirit:
Cycle #1, Acts 1-2: Appoint Matthias, record of Judas's death, Pentecost.
Cycle #2, Acts 6-8: Appoint Seven, Stephen's death, Samaritan Pentecost.
Cycle #3 reverses, Acts 10-13: Spirit on Gentiles, death of Peter, appointment of Saul and Barnabas.
Acts presents the church as a polity, a
pneumatological one.
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Polity is a loaded word, but it is true that Christ has given the #
church a divine form of working, with a definite organization. We will be a "pneumatological polity" when we follow the Spirit's revelation on how to go about our work.