Author : Jeff Van Wyk, Ph.d.
Release : 2016-05-20
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Apostolic Foundations for Students - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apostolic Foundations for Students write by Jeff Van Wyk, Ph.d.. This book was released on 2016-05-20. Apostolic Foundations for Students available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no word that should be more alive in our consciousness than the word apostolic. It is a word that says everything about the nature and the genius of the church, and all that God expects from it, and intends for it. Like all other great biblical words, we cannot find a definition for them by reaching for a dictionary. It is a word that we need to apprehend and be apprehended by. It is a word that has fallen into disuse and needs to be restored, and that restoration is not going to be cheap-but it is worth everything.The Greek root of the word apostolic is apostolos' which means, sent one.' That which is not sent of God cannot accomplish the purposes of God, and that which He sends He empowers, and we are going to examine the anatomy of sending from the account of the commissioning and sending of Moses out of the burning bush. This sending by God is timeless in all of the profound principles of God that have to do with sending, and therefore, with that which has to do with apostolic.There is something about the whole structure of church life, and the necessity to perform something to justify its existence and its perpetuation, that compels it to act without waiting. There is no greater death than waiting, which is at the very heart of priestliness. Priests did not commence their priestly activity, or ministry, until seven days of waiting were fulfilled. Seven is the number of completion, and the completion was the final death of their well-meaning intentions to do for God. Until that dies, there is no true priestly service, and if it is not priestly, then it is not apostolic. Jesus is the High Priest and Apostle of our confession. The first must precede the last. Impatience, self-will, religious ambition, the necessity to do and to be seen doing, to be recognized and acknowledged is death to the purposes of God