[OBW]

I'm fairly on-board with the idea of two tiers of apostles — the original named apostles and then the others that, as Ohio indicates, scripture opens the door for.

But I have a hard time with the notion that everyone can be an apostle at the lowest levels. Not saying that there is no way to understand the simply notion of being sent and that potentially including us all to the extent that we are "sent" even to our workplaces.

But I think that when the word apostle was used in the NT, it was something more than just being a good Christian and preaching the gospel to a coworker or something like that. Maybe missionaries qualify. But even that is not exactly the same kind of thinking as how the word was ever used in the NT.

So I find myself unsettled as to how far to take the broadening of the term and stay in reasonable connection with what is spoken in the scripture.