Our passages this week are from Acts 13:2 – 5a, Hebrews 3:1-3a, Exodus 3 , John 17:18 & 20:21
As we, as a church, have been led through Mark’s Gospel and now as we approach “half-time” in our study of the book known as “The Acts of the Apostles”, perhaps we should take a “time-out” – as we did at the break between the Gospel & Acts – to check that we are not being carried away with the flood of information and missing the basic principles that comprise “apostolicism”. It is true that in one sense “The Apostolic Age” ended with the death of the John who preferred to be called a disciple rather than an apostle, in another sense however we must know that the principle of apo(from)stello(to send) is the very on-going essence of God’s method of reconciling the world to Himself. As the readings imply we will be stepping back from an exposition of a particular passage to see from the scriptures as a whole what I am calling “The Apostolic Principle”.