This continues my series on apostleship.
The twelve apostles have a unique role in salvation history. Everything we’ve surveyed in previous posts – their personal knowledge of Jesus and his teaching, his commissioning of them, their post-resurrection encounter with him, his equipping of them with the Spirit, and the miracles they were enabled to perform in his name – all point to them being Christ’s unique, authorised representatives, through whom we can come to know him – incarnate, crucified, risen, and now seated above all heavenly and earthly powers. This normative teaching has been preserved in written form in the New Testament. This is consistent with the picture of the early church listening to the apostle’s teaching in Acts 2:42. It may be also what Eph. 2:20 means when it refers to God’s united household being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets.
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