Is There Going to Be Another Generation of the Church?

Very few people in the original christian community at this stage were aware there was going to be a second generation. If jesus felt the church needed a papacy and established it as having a chief leader in his absence in its first generation, then we would naturally expect that to be continued in later generations. It wouldn't make sense for jesus to say, you know, the church when it's tiny, needs this a single leader,. but later on, when it's billions of people, it won'tThe fact that he wanted unity in his church, as he prayed on the night he was betrayed in john 17, for example, would point to the ongoing need for a