[OBW]

And one short addendum.

It is true that Paul told the people to beware of false apostles. But that was written to people still living in the time of the original apostles. There is nothing in that charge that is automatically eternal on scope. It could be true. But it also could be relevant only to the era.

It is not stated. Reading it as if it was intended to be a charge to everyone in every time is a huge presumption.

And if there are or are not Apostles in that sense in this day, the fact is that they are not overtly demonstrated as they were in the first generation of the church. If we want to start a new "recovery" of the apostolic church, with the need for a modern apostle, then I sense an new LRC coming. I would suggest that despite the errors seen at various levels in various Christian groups, the church is, for the most part, exactly what it is meant to be. There is not some 2,000 year drought of apostleship. And no ones' recast of history will convince me that there are certain ones (almost all leading down a line to the exclusive Brethren and the LRC) that were apostles in some overt sense. It is just reheated leftovers from Lee. No more of that for me. The church is really in too good a shape to tolerate so much nay-saying.

And as was somewhat recently sung, "It's getting better all the time."