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To: count-your-change

What’s your take on the word “apostle”?


1,962 posted on 05/05/2010 6:55:20 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Quia quem meruisti* portare, Alleluia // Resurrexit* sicut dixit. Alleluia)
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To: Mad Dawg
In Scripture the term apostle means, “one who is sent forth” and is usually applied to the twelve apostles of Christ.
Paul was an apostle though not one of the twelve and on occasion an individual congregation would send someone out as an “apostle”.
1,993 posted on 05/05/2010 8:49:28 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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