Apostleship: the story so far

A summary of the posts on apostleship so far:

• Christ is the pre-eminent apostle;
• he chose the twelve apostles to be with him during his earthly ministry and be witnesses of his resurrection;
• these twelve, empowered by the Holy Spirit, carried out God’s initial evangelistic mission;
• Paul shares this divinely commissioned evangelistic ministry;
• the twelve plus Paul are therefore uniquely, divinely authorised and empowered to proclaim Christ to us, which proclamation is preserved in the new testament.