BIBLICAL CONCEPTS TO APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY
\nTHE BOOK OF ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IS A PRECISE BIBLICAL MODEL IN BUILDING AND ADVANCING ANY FORM OF KINGDOM INITIATIVE. THE BOOK GIVES US A PROFOUND INSIGHT INTO THE TYPE OF LIFE, CHARACTER NATURE, AND MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT ORDINARY MEN AND WOMEN WHO PLAGUED ALLEGIANCE TO GOD\u2019S REDEMPTIVE AND RESTORATION PURPOSE EXHIBITED.
\nTHIS BOOK, LIKE THE BOOK OF REVELATION, IS HIGHLY MISUNDERSTOOD BECAUSE OF ITS ONE-SIDED EMPHASIS ON MIRACLES AND POWER GIFTS. The overemphasizing of gifts rather than character and nature of the Spirit, in relation to fruit bearing, has led several to the accurate apostolic pattern laid through the teachings and life pattern of those who paid the ultimate price to preserve the truth given to them.
\nJOHN 16:12-15. NIV
\n12 "I HAVE MUCH MORE TO SAY TO YOU, MORE THAN YOU CAN NOW BEAR. 13 BUT WHEN HE, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, COMES, HE WILL GUIDE YOU INTO ALL TRUTH. HE WILL NOT SPEAK ON HIS OWN; HE WILL SPEAK ONLY WHAT HE HEARS, AND HE WILL TELL YOU WHAT IS YET TO COME. 14 HE WILL BRING GLORY TO ME BY TAKING FROM WHAT IS MINE AND MAKING IT KNOWN TO YOU. 15 ALL THAT BELONGS TO THE FATHER IS MINE. THAT IS WHY I SAID THE SPIRIT WILL TAKE FROM WHAT IS MINE AND MAKE IT KNOWN TO YOU.
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