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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5930917" data-attributes="member: 65823">The apostles of Christ were sent to carry out the work of edification among the churches of our Lord in order to bring about unity among God’s people through proclaiming God’s word. The Scriptures teach that there were certain qualifications they had to meet in order to be able to serve as an apostle of Christ.&nbsp;In order to qualify, a man must have been:&nbsp;A witness of Jesus Christ. Shortly before his death, Jesus told his twelve apostles, “And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning” (John 15:27).Chosen by Christ. All of Christ’s apostles were personally called and chosen by Christ himself. Luke says Jesus “called unto him his disciples; and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles” (Luke 6:13). Christ carefully selected twelve men from all of his disciples to serve as apostles.A personal student of Christ. The apostles were also personal disciples of Jesus (Luke 6:13). So, they were constantlyable to perform miracles. In Acts 2 they did “many wonders and signs were done by the apostles” (Acts 2:43). While the miracles confirmed the truth of the apostles’ message, they also proved that a man was qualified to serve as an apostle.The apostles were a special group of carefully selected messengers. Only those who meet the qualifications given in the New Testament can rightly serve as apostles of Christ. No one today meets those qualifications. We need to guard against those who Paul warns are “false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” (2 Cor. 11:13).&nbsp;I like what the Lord said about the Ephesians. He commended them because they “tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Rev. 2:2)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 5930917, member: 65823"] The apostles of Christ were sent to carry out the work of edification among the churches of our Lord in order to bring about unity among God’s people through proclaiming God’s word. The Scriptures teach that there were certain qualifications they had to meet in order to be able to serve as an apostle of Christ. In order to qualify, a man must have been: A witness of Jesus Christ. Shortly before his death, Jesus told his twelve apostles, “And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning” (John 15:27). Chosen by Christ. All of Christ’s apostles were personally called and chosen by Christ himself. Luke says Jesus “called unto him his disciples; and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles” (Luke 6:13). Christ carefully selected twelve men from all of his disciples to serve as apostles. A personal student of Christ. The apostles were also personal disciples of Jesus (Luke 6:13). So, they were constantlyable to perform miracles. In Acts 2 they did “many wonders and signs were done by the apostles” (Acts 2:43). While the miracles confirmed the truth of the apostles’ message, they also proved that a man was qualified to serve as an apostle. The apostles were a special group of carefully selected messengers. Only those who meet the qualifications given in the New Testament can rightly serve as apostles of Christ. No one today meets those qualifications. We need to guard against those who Paul warns are “false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” (2 Cor. 11:13). I like what the Lord said about the Ephesians. He commended them because they “tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars” (Rev. 2:2) [/QUOTE]

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