Bernard_Marx
Puritan Board Freshman
Recently I've come into contact with a church in the Toronto area that claims to be under a team of apostles through an informal Bible Study. Some of the folks my age at this Bible study invited me to come to their evening service, which I agreed to in light of the fact that there was no service at my church at the same time. Needless to say I wasn't impressed by what I witnessed there. All of the usual freakish charismatic stuff. However the sermon bothered me a lot. It was just the pastor (also an apostle) pointing the congregation to various passages in the Bible and applying them without any exegesis. After the servive was or, I attempted to make a B-line for the door but the pastor started talking to me. He told me "prophetically" that I need to stop "doing theology" and get a relationship with God. Needless to say this alarmed me.
But what he told me next frightened me. He told me that all churches are supposed to be under the authority of a team of apostles. I said there are no longer any, and provided the usual proofs. He then gave me a LITANY of scriptures apparantly indicating that there were apostles duirng the time of the church of acts that were not of the 12.
Here's my question: How am I to respond to this? I know that he's wrong, and he's teaching something that is potentially very dangerous. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Grace,
Tom
But what he told me next frightened me. He told me that all churches are supposed to be under the authority of a team of apostles. I said there are no longer any, and provided the usual proofs. He then gave me a LITANY of scriptures apparantly indicating that there were apostles duirng the time of the church of acts that were not of the 12.
Here's my question: How am I to respond to this? I know that he's wrong, and he's teaching something that is potentially very dangerous. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Grace,
Tom