Title: Apostles
Text: I Corinthians 12:28
The Twelve
- Matthew 10
- Called by Jesus
- Sent with a job
- Consider Mark 6:30-36
The office….
- Acts 1:15-26; I Corinthians 9:9-10; Acts 26:12-23
- The message remains the same – Acts 2:14ff
Different uses of the term….
- Taken as a whole, the term seems to indicate “missionary” – a term that otherwise does not appear in scripture
- Acts 14:4, 14
- I Corinthians 15:3-11
- Galatians 1:19
- Philippians 2:25
- I Thessalonians 1:1; 2:7
- Purpose – to start the church – qualitative and quantitative.
I Corinthians 12:28 – When Paul says “…first, apostles,” this is not an indication of importance but rather of order in how churches get started and how they grow. The tension is in how important each part of the body is as stated in 12:12-27 and Paul’s “greater gifts” assertion in v. 31