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Here is my take. First of all I see a LOT of people who are known as "Apostle" this or that..Sometimes they just start off as evangelist, then Pastor...moves up to Prophet or prophetess and then finally they reach Apostlehood..
I don't see anywhere in the bible where someone has any of those titles as official titles everyone calls them. Rather they were simply descriptive terms...
I mean, are we heading back to Rome? If I wanted to be puffed up in pride I'd take Apostle any day over "father", but the bible says not to do that. So why are we doing it with these terms? I have to say I am leery about those titles as I tend to think it's more about pride and wanting to gain a title.
I see a lot of Pastors introduce their wives as "Evangelist so and so"....do they really do the work of the evangelist? What is the Pastor doing?
How did they get the title of Apostle? Did someone confer it on them or was it self appointed? Or was it appointed by a friend?
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Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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