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The Apostolic Hybrid: Unlocking Clear Apostolic Mantles and Mandates for the Continuance of the Church Age
The Apostolic Hybrid: Unlocking Clear Apostolic Mantles and Mandates for the Continuance of the Church Age
The Apostolic Hybrid: Unlocking Clear Apostolic Mantles and Mandates for the Continuance of the Church Age
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There are many who walk in confusion about the calling that God has given them. Am I an apostle or am I just a prophet? Should I focus on becoming a pastor or should I be an evangelist? Is it my job to teach or is it my job to preach? If you are among the many who ask these questions of themselves when they seek the doorway of ministry, 

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    THE APOSTOLIC HYBRID

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    Copyright © 2019 Sherman D. Farmer

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    Dedication

    I dedicate this book and revelation to the plethora of undiscovered apostolic voices belonging to the arsenal of unconventional destinies within the kingdom of Jesus Christ!

    This book is a spark and a reminder that your vital contribution is beyond the monotonous walls of any church fanfare or denominational reality. I pray you never inhibit your unlimited potential concerning your own apostolic mandate or mantle, and I pray that you will never allow this same potential to be diminished by those who choose to operate their lives with phobia because of their voluntary selections of a lesser quality in the gospel ministry!

    To my comrades who are emerging and confirming apostles, it is now time to ascertain swift action and unapologetic momentum! So, this charge is an invitation for you to embrace your predetermined actualization of unique apostleship. Therefore, use this God-given impartation to move forward with that grace and by His infinite power!

    Godly greatness is typically wrapped in the unusualness of God which is induced by the power of God, and this unusualness is released so that this same power may quench the complacency and normalcy perpetuated within the spirit, church, and kingdom realms. It is your sacred task to birth this mandate and mission for all who will engage with you and encounter what God has placed inside of you!

    Finally, when we each fulfill our apostolic mandate, then the prevailing problem of apostolic normalcy can begin to be solved. When we accept this awesome task and assignment, then and only then will we begin to witness more of the hidden, creative, and authentic thirsts awaiting apostles, like you and I, around the world. Again, you and I have been given this urgent task and chosen for this assignment in this very hour. You and I are now divinely conferred to succor the experience of this apostolic miracle which only Christ can truly fulfill! He wants to fulfill it through me just as much as He wants to fulfill it through you!

    Agape in Christ,

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    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Why Should You Read This Book?

    The Importance of Revelation Being at its Best When it is Coupled with Foundation

    The Importance of Forging Ahead Amid Conflicts and Competitions

    The Importance of Apostleship and its Interconnection with Two Doctrinal Differences

    The Importance of Commonality with Apostleship Always Resides Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ

    SECTION I:

    THE APOSTOLIC FOUNDATION

    CHAPTER 1

    The First Classroom Lesson is Discipleship Before Apostleship

    CHAPTER 2

    The Second Classroom Lesson is the Responsibility of Apostolicity

    CHAPTER 3

    The Major Issues with Modern-Day Apostleship

    CHAPTER 4

    A Few Pertinent Resolutions About Modern-Day Apostleship

    CHAPTER 5

    The Biblical Definition of Apostleship

    CHAPTER 6

    The Biblical Origin of the Five-Fold and its Relevance to Modern-Day Apostleship

    SECTION II:

    AN APOSTOLIC REVELATION

    CHAPTER 7

    The Birthing and Revelation of the Apostolic Hybrid Principle

    CHAPTER 8

    A Few New Revelatory Laws of Apostolicity

    CHAPTER 9

    The Apostolic Hybrid’s Articulation in the Prophetic Ministry

    CHAPTER 10

    The Apostolic Hybrid’s Articulation in the Didactic Ministry

    CHAPTER 11

    The Apostolic Hybrid’s Articulation in the Pastoral Ministry

    CHAPTER 12

    The Apostolic Hybrid’s Articulation in the Evangelistic Ministry

    CHAPTER 13

    The Conclusion

    Sources

    About the Author

    Acknowledgments

    To my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ—the manifestation of this assignment has only come to fruition because you have graced me with your Holy Spirit which enables me to articulate your Divine Word. Lord Jesus, thank you for eternal life and thank you for the awesome task of fulfilling your supernatural work within this generation.

    To my family—Mom, Dad, Ej, Sharon, Lynue, JaVonn, Bryana, and Chloe. Thank you for providing the necessary community to learn the lessons of love and family. To my darling nieces (Shayla, Nyla, Madison, and Makenzie) and nephews (CJ [Jacob] and Jaxson), your uncle loves you and I am thankful that you love me too.

    And to my apostolic team and prophetic children, and my spiritual and godchildren (Eric and Evan)—I am birthed for your destiny, I am existing to ensure our posterity, and I am advancing because of your agape. Thank you for not making my labor in the Lord in vain.

    I would like to make a special acknowledgement about the Straightway Apostolic Ministries Board of Directors (Monta and Staci Burrough, Terrence and Lisa Toland, Patrice Lancaster, Denise Garris, Danielle Proctor, Lakeisha Adekoya, Jennifer Jones, Devante Bell, Carlyle Glover, Tonya Smith, Ladonna Blount, Mike Owen, and JaVonn and Bryana Bright-Farmer). Thank you for your financial partnership in making this book come into greater manifestation. Much Agape!

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    Why Should You Read This Book?

    The Importance of Revelation Being at its Best When it is Coupled with Foundation

    I am always saying to my church and anyone I am fathering or mentoring within the apostolic and prophetic that: Without foundation there is no revelation. Within this simple but loaded maxim resides the importance of remaining faithfully anchored within foundational principles before one ventures into the enhancements found within the realm of revelation. After all, the quorum of apostleship is surely about spiritual government, and there is no true protocol within an apostolic oil if that oil is not calibrated within its own community. If there is no consistent connection to the foundation of God because of an apostolic gift, we will see a decline of order and an even larger landslide of chaos among the doctrines of God. Herein is the premise as to how we find ourselves with another book and why I am called to gift this book unto you.

    Every apostle connected to the true apostolic college would readily agree that order is the highest mandate within the mantle of apostleship. Before branching out into our varied expressions of apostleship, God wants us to be true agents (at the core of our ministry) who will fight the presence of disorder within the body we call Christ. Before one begins their apostolic ascent into such realms of apostolic revelation, it is imperative that one remains grounded by their apostolic foundation. That foundation is the Word of God found within the Bible. The journey from foundation into revelation is truly a great experience. And if we are very honest, it has an addictive quality. Equally so, the experience of vacillating between foundational and revelatory domains becomes a sheer and joyous ride that one will regret leaving if they are truly a student of the Divine. For as one shifts from the natural into the supernatural dimensions, one gets to preview how God has gifted man to remain a little lower than the angels (even though mankind is shaped in sin and has fallen short of the glory of God). Yet, man can return to the glory of God because of Christ Jesus and His atoning work at Calvary.

    For we can clearly understand how this spiritual understanding is of a truth. But opposite of this truth, there are spiritualized falsities along the roadway to soundness, even within the expression we call modern-day apostleship. These falsities are grave and egregious to the mantle and ministry of apostleship. And if we are not careful, when there is no foundation we can readily fall victim to them at any time. Therefore, we must start with this prime directive and chief exhortation. And that exhortation is this: we all must follow the same guidelines of revelatory thought if we want to make apostleship work better in today’s time. Those guidelines are best protected when we have a balance of biblical doctrine connected to our apostleship. For the true definition of foundation is: the thorough learning of doctrinal truths found within the canonized Bible. And a truer definition of what is applicable revelation is the means of such creative enhancement from such doctrinal truths. And yet, these doctrinal and revelatory truths are given to us by God and from His revelatory realms of glory. It is here, in between the confines of apostolic foundation and revelation, that the secret to unlocking mantles and mandates for this age can begin and certainly continue.

    What we will further discover is that the adjective, apostolic, doesn’t mean a denominationalized doctrine. Rather, this word (which stems from the noun apostle) is truthfully a means of mobilizing a dynamic and spiritual operation of various sent out ministries who are commissioned by the Lord Christ Jesus. Let’s be even clearer. It is God who has given the church such giftings, missions, and spiritual mandates. And every measure of allocation is through the ministry of the Lord Christ Jesus who is the Chief Apostle of us all.

    And now that we have established apostolic and foundational protocol, it is with great honor and due respect that I submit to you their formal introduction about two particular giftings that have the assignment of presenting new mandates and new mantles into every church age. These two giftings are our main forerunners of such foundational, revelatory, and spiritual operation. The official names of such gifts are called apostles and prophets (Ephesians 4:11). And it is their responsibility to continuously lay foundation and to further expand such foundation into the manifestation of sound revelation (Ephesians 2:20). For the apostles and prophets of God are always working within the realm of soundness, credibility, and realistic revelations which Scripture can continually support. It is by the wisdom of God, through the Lord Christ Jesus, that the Spirit of God has sent these beautiful assistants and dimensions into the earth realm.

    If you have been called to either an apostleship or prophetic assignment, then you must readily realize that your assignment resides within this same sphere of comprehension and understanding. You are called and sent to create mandates while you are also called to demonstrate new apostolic and prophetic mantles. And this communal sphere is the required sharing space where foundation and revelation equally meet to always agree. Meaning the apostolic ability will always seek to work with the prophetic ability. For these two leading gifts are consistently uniting to create their own hybridity of ministry as well. And this hybridity only desires to articulate under the umbrella of sober speaking. This principle of inspiration, found always in its proper perspective, will certainly bring greater insights into the Lord’s holy church, and it will continue to disprove the doubters who assert that such giftings are no longer relevant for today’s time.

    Moreover, this book will hopefully provide context to the assertion that God is still using these two gifts to birth relevant constructs of revelation within the body of Christ and the kingdom at large. These two gifts are still quite relevant. In fact, they are relevant to every time, era, and generation born until the Lord Christ Jesus returns for His holy church. And afterward, He shall also return for His holy nation which is still called Israel. It is here within the canvas of the combination of an apostolic and prophetic mixture of oils that the revelation of the apostolic hybrid is born. And it is my strong apostolic assessment that once we review this new Rhema of revelation, it will dissolve disorder and provide scriptural confirmation that God is still the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.

    The Importance of Forging Ahead Amid Conflicts and Competitions

    There is always the presence of competition and conflict when referring to erroneous ministry and misapplied denominationalisms. One competitive conflict is that of the presence of erroneous renegades and their sub-religions in Christianity. The Bible clearly exhorts and predicts that the days will come when men shall heap to themselves sensationalized teachers. The purpose of such seeking is because of its sensationalized students. These types of students only desire to satisfy the craving of their itching ears (2 Timothy 4:3). The phrase itching ears can be taken to mean: they who only want to be spiritually tickled by their personal agendas and unregenerate behaviors. It can further mean: they who only desire to be stimulated by such teaching for the purpose of spiritual development which does not yield their lives any closer to Christ. These individuals are not really in the church. Rather, they are only around the church! And they are merely and mainly here to socialize and exercise spiritual frivolity and frailty. Their ultimate focus is on distractions such as materialism. They are also addicted to the fanfare of hating others. And they enjoy watching and creating uncensored slurs, slogans, and unrighteous statements (which are usually filled with harsh speaking and foolish jesting).

    When someone has the itching ear sickness, it can also be interpreted as one desirous of hearing things catered to them, which pacifies rather than edifies the hearer. For these candy-laden hearers, likeable things are uttered only for the production of carnal happiness and pleasures. The itching ear sickness will never possess the intention of true spiritual conviction nor will it create a destination of being conformed to the image of the Lord Christ Jesus. No, the itching ear sickness never has within it the desire of soundness and holy teaching. This sickness has the opposite desire—the production of meaningless prayers and worship experiences. Those prayers and worship experiences are always rendered meaningless because they are usually amiss. And herein is the very reason God needs more than ever a league of apostolic interceptors and intercessors to combat and to compete with such realities. This is why the prophet and the apostle still exist, and the primary sources of such resolution are epitomized in the ministry of an apostle and a prophet. The apostle sets the order while the prophet speaks the heart of God. Sometimes the Lord will place both tasks into one individual. The apostle will seem similar to the prophetic and the prophet will seem similar to the apostolic from time to time. This apostolic hybridity can be further assisted by the evangelist (who filters the called-ones of God from the sea of the lost), the pastor (who covers and governs the local sheepfold) and the teacher (who has been ordained as an elder and is qualified to administer sound knowledge, understanding, and wisdom from the Word of God). The combination of hybridity is always ever changing. And that change is depending on the predicament of depravity. This is the only reason I strongly believe the Lord creates hybridity. The greater the decline within a church due to the spiritual depravity sin produces, the stronger the super-five-fold agent the Lord will create to overtake these various demons and demonic influences.

    Thus, the two primary gifts of apostle and prophet along with the three supportive giftings of the evangelist, pastor, and teacher are the major weapons for our warfare against the itching ear sickness. The five gifts are led by these two leading gifts (apostle and prophet). But the first of the two is the primary source of our revelation found within this book. For this book is primarily about how an apostle leads the other four gifts into apostolic hybridism and convergence, because the apostle governs all the other gifts by its apostolic oil and grace. And the apostle can operate in any of the other gifts based on the absence of certain gifts which creates various needs in various churches. This is why we must advance our thinking about what it means to be truly apostolic. Instead of seeing each gift as a distinct operation alone amongst itself, the apostolic mantle and oil links with each gift to form a super-powered gift of double or triple proportions. Herein is a sneak peek of where we will be going. But for now, let’s return to the foundational premise at hand.

    For the major problem and reason God has created this counterattack and measure is due to a certain spirit. That spirit is the spirit of error. For the spirit of error is a major affliction that only those inspired by God can help solve. And the reason this scriptural prophecy is reigning true, even now, is because we are beginning to see a larger prevailing, but unfortunate, trend of erroneous church misfits. These erroneous church misfits are those who do not have any desire to fit into a current church structure. Not because they are of a peculiar people status (as 1 Peter 2:9 states), but because they are standing out to be disorderly and disruptive to the body of Christ altogether. These erroneous church misfits are making their presence known without hesitation or reservation. They are creating an unholy anarchy and producing more disgraced individuals who seek to perpetuate the profaning of the church instead of truly professing the beauty of the church, because they are heavily attracted to the spirit of error and the falsity which comes along with the hunger to please the itching ear. Herein is why we need the apostolic hybrid. We need more than the traditional view and functionality of each five-fold gifting. We need the next level of spiritual warfare to combat this very strong and delusional spiritual realm. We need the apostolic hybrid to hit this spirit of error with such a blow that they won’t know what hit them. And they would definitely not have seen this punch coming!

    For every false prophet there must be sent into the church an even truer prophet. In the same manner, for every false teacher there must be sent into the church an even truer teacher. Therefore, for every false apostle there must be sent into the church an even truer apostle. For every wrong action and agenda there must be some form of creative strategy to eradicate the presence of this hyperextended error and its radically charged and erroneous-filled students. Herein is why modern-day apostleship must extract the essence of its mantle and hybridity to assist the body of Christ with such eradication. This strategy is very vital. And what is even more strategic is how we now must ensure that the revelations inside this book be released with urgency, passion, power, and purpose for this present time. For the purity of revelation with the stability of foundation, under the ministry of a modern-day apostle, can help with the spirit of error’s exploitation. It can also help with the itching ear syndrome. And it can help with the disorder currently seen within the body of Christ. This convergence and hybridism is not only about apostleship connected to prophetism. It is also about evangelism connected to the other five-fold gifts, pastoring connected to the other five-fold gifts, and teaching connected to the other five-fold gifts as well.

    It is going to take this divine revelation and other apostolic revelations to combat the impressiveness of this demonic horde which has seized not only the church but has also staked its claim within the permitted spiritual realms. And the furtherance of this demonic presence is fed by the act we now call spiritual boredom. Many are ascribing that spiritual boredom is the very reason many churches are lying dormant or even declared subjectively dead. But I beg to differ. It is the presence of these wild revelations and revelators who have decided to induce an alternative for such spiritual boredom. Here is where the leadership of the church has fallen short. Here is where the governmental gifts must be recharged and quickened once again for kingdom advancement as we use the church as the main vanguard against the spirit of this world.

    It is quite true that a revelation helps keep the church from appearing to be boring. Sure, any church can experience an out-of-season reality, from time to time. Again, this is undeniably true. But there is an ebb and flow reality within any organism. Meaning, the church has its give days, and the church also has its take days. But the goal of a legitimate ministry is the strong teaching that we must remain faithful to the house of God, for judgment still begins within its corridors.

    Again, the apostolic hybridity revelation and principle has been given to assist the body and not hinder it. And beloved, this open reward found within this revelation, is in no way fueled by a private interpretation. For the Word of God states that there is no private prophecy with any Scripture (2 Peter 1:20). Therefore, I assert to you that there is no private interpretation and operation of any form within this book. Furthermore, this revelation is a bona fide download from God.

    Because the erroneous church misfits have been infected by the sickness of the itching ear syndrome, they have been infected with heresy too. They are agents called upon to destroy the presence and purity that only an apostolic oil and anointing can purge. For apostleship purifies an environment, provides stabilization to a given atmosphere, and stabilizes the church from the sickness disorder and wrongfulness, such as the likes of this overly spiritualized boredom epidemic and campaign performing (even now) within our Lord’s holy church. But what would happen if the apostle’s job description and the prophet’s job description were combined? I will tell you what would happen! Double packed apostolic-prophetic power or prophetic-apostolic power!

    Herein is how we understand Paul’s exposits about his own apostolic ministry, for the apostle Paul addresses the church of Ephesus with such information. Paul uses a clean and clear revelation about the governmental and leading spiritual gifts (known as the five-fold). He states that such gifts are given as a tool of promoting order during their operation (Ephesians 4:11-14). They are given to build the church upward and onward. They are given to assist with the ministry of Jesus Christ—here and now. But also, they are given to take us into tomorrow and into an even greater future. Heed the call apostles. We must have clear mandates for this age. We must also have updated mantles for this age as well. For apostles, we have been given to the body of Christ as a method of maturing the saints into full adulthood in Christ. Not by way of natural age but by way of supernatural maturity. The apostle Paul goes on to say that apostleship, along with any of the demonstration of the other four gifts, is placed within the earth and in God’s kingdom through the vanguard known as the church.

    The truth then is this: God does not want us to be carnalized children. And the truth is further stated with this: God does not want His children to be easily moved and shifted by any and everything that comes into the church. Paul states that there will be men who creep into the church with cunning craftiness, and these same men will filter and fit into the body, undetected, as they reside there with one purpose. That purpose is to wait and deceive (Ephesians 4:14). The idea is that these men have the power to gamble your life, spirituality, and destiny.

    So, before any apostle seeks to be deep in revelatory thought, it is important that each apostle finds themselves grounded in doctrinal thinking. For there are many authentic apostles who have emerged onto the scene, and some have fallen victim to this spiritual epidemic. But brethren, these things ought not to be so! For apostleship is not about intellectual acrobatics, nor is it an exercise of arrogance, or a tell-all while telling-everyone-off experience. Rather, it is a gift that must be filled and fueled by love, and compelled to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). Apostleship is about keeping our feet on the ground while teaching our spirits to soar into and above the heavens.

    If the presence of any true five-fold gift is present, the results will bring us more together for the better and never will they divide us for the worst. The results of apostleship, or any other gifting whether singular in expression or under the mandate of convergence versus divergence, should yield a fruit remaining not a fruit draining. If we are faithful to the apostolic charge and apostolic task at hand, we will remain credible and Christlike as we do what God has called us to do. For the presence of apostleship helps keep the church from complacency, dormancy, and monotony. The presence of apostleship helps to keep the church from falling victim to spiritual contamination. God does not desire for us to become complacent with the realm of Scripture. He desires for us to experience the joys of transitioning from glory to glory and from faith to faith which is the true means of using the Scripture. And He wants us to do this one foot at a time as we rightly divide the Word of truth. Herein is why I strongly believe that this is not only done by the Spirit of God, but it is also done through the Word of God. And God has given us the talented presence of the apostles and prophets to ensure that our glory journeys and our faith to faith shifting will be done with decency and also with a spiritualized and rationalized order.

    So, I am not refuting that there is a clear boredom within the Lord’s church. People have gotten bored with the hearing of the Logos of God alone. Sure, God has more to give to us than just the Logos (which means His written Word). And yes, God does provide alternative experiences within the confines of Logos and Rhema words alike. And yes, these two types of Word disseminations can coexist with harmony and greater clarity. But, it is imperative that one must learn and follow the proper guidelines of such tenures and treasures of the already established Scripture. Hence, the creation of the office of the apostle and the office of the New Testament prophet have been given to police the spiritual realm. And they are here to ensure that we have proper perspective in the natural and supernatural portals of the church, kingdom and Earth.

    As I initially type this out to you, I am once again feeling convicted and charged to realize that we have a heavy mandate to carry. That mandate is to make sure that apostleship does not continue to be connected with more failures than successes, especially when we need to see those litanies of successes now more than ever. For we need this within this current church age. But we will not see them if we do not have more sober apostles willing to emerge!

    For the intense battle with the presence and usage of the word, name, and title—apostle, apostolic, or apostolically—has caused many to become tense when they hear any of them articulated.

    It is true that the name and function of apostle is dually objective and subjective in thought and in deed, but it is our goal to make it more objective than subjective if you will. It is objective because the Word of God mentions it when Jesus institutes elevation of His disciples into the status of becoming such offices. The Gospels first mention their elevation as He first shares this word with us in Matthew 10:2, and the Gospel of Mark first shares this word with us in Mark 6:30, and the Gospel of Luke first shares this word with us in Luke 6:13. However, John’s Gospel never indicates such transition; yet, we confer this truth with the synoptic Gospels because every word is established in the mouth of two or three witnesses (2 Corinthians 13:1).

    Surely, this threefold witness among the gospels reveals that every great apostle must remain a serious disciple. Hence, the vacillation between when to be an apostolic student versus when to be an apostolic teacher is the dual responsibility of any apostle. So, I say it again for special emphasis and certainty of notation, apostles are not just leaders; apostle are students and followers too. Therefore, apostles should bring to every learning experience paper and pen just as much as we are called to bring our textbook, ruler, and chalkboard.

    Because if we stay with the original intention of Jesus’ creation of the apostles, we will discover that we have strayed away from the true path of apostleship. That pathway is discipleship before apostleship. And never was apostleship created as departmental elitism. Never was apostleship designed to stand apart from the disciplines found under the leadership of the Lord Christ Jesus. Instead, apostleship seems to have been created to further exhort and articulate the revelations of Jesus Christ. And since His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts, even with all our advancement and skillsets within the spiritual realm, we must all declare that we know nothing and God is the only one who knows everything! Herein is the purpose of the soon to be disclosed revelations within this book. Reminder: the apostle is primarily for His holy church, and then an ambassador sent out into this dying world. Herein is why an apostle is only as great as he is a disciple. And if we remain true to our apostolic cause, we will remain infection-free from the epidemic of the itching ear sickness. A true apostle possesses an internal drive and divine pull to advance the kingdom. Never do they seek to be erroneous and doctrinally unsound. The apostle is not here to compete with these conflicts for self-glorification. Rather, apostles are here to continue in an apostolic task and oil, as they compete with these conflicts as a means of promoting the glorification of Jesus Christ. Apostleship is about Jesus and Jesus alone!

    The Importance of Apostleship and its Interconnection with Two Doctrinal Differences

    Now that we have established that revelation needs foundation just as much as apostles start with discipleship, we must further establish how the word apostle can be taken more as a subjective word than an objective one. This is the case because of the basis of opinion within the church realm. Additionally, there are more subjective opinions rather than objective opinions being presented about modern-day apostleship. What I mean by opinion is best explained by saying differences and communities. We call such differences and communities various denominations, for it is ones denomination that will determine if modern-day apostleship is subjectively or objectively used. And ones denominational difference will determine if you believe apostleship is relevant or irrelevant. Simply put, some believe apostleship dissolved and became non-existent when the original apostles died. Others believe apostleship continues to emerge and redefines itself beyond the confines of the early church. Thus, anyone who speaks of ascertaining the call of apostleship will spend every given breath, until their last dying breath, striving to prove that the inequality of the discontinued-understanding of apostleship is wrong (and of course, the mission of those who believe opposite is to prove that we are illegitimate in our belief of such practices). The contemporary apostle will further have to catapult people from the rigidity of their subjective truths, as they testify about their authentic experience within the spirit of apostleship. For not all will believe that what you speak is truth and from the Lord. But if your conviction remains true, then your coursework in apostleship will get completed whether men praise you or not!

    Herein is the main point. The conflict and competition of denomination has attempted to cripple those of us who operate in a purity of apostleship. This is why it is the second conflict and competition I must submit to you for your further understanding. The simplistic reasoning behind this is from a theological debate among those who argue that its present-day interpretation and present-day purposes do not seem to go beyond the first presentations of New Testament Scripture.

    Their subjective perpetuation of personalized theology suggests to us that many should cease and desist such operations. Herein is why these unending and open-ended debates continuously cause what we now refer to as the current conflict with modern-day apostleship. This conflict has also

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