a·pos·tle
[uh-pos-uhl]
noun
1. any of the early followers of Jesus who carried the Christian message into the world.According to the definition above, most Christians should be apostles. Disciples first, then apostles as one grows in the faith.
2. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) any of the original 12 disciples called by Jesus to preach the gospel: Simon Peter, the brothers James and John, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas Iscariot.
3. the first or the best-known Christian missionary in any region or country.
4. Eastern Church . one of the 70 disciples of Jesus.
5. the title of the highest ecclesiastical official in certain Protestant sects.
But that is not the sense in which the NT writers used for the word *apostle*.
Acts 1:21-22 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
Nobody on the earth today can fit that qualification.
I was going by Yeshua’s definition of apostle.
(the one that required him to replace the ill-chosen Mathias with Paul)