Sentences with phrase «first apostles»

Lao - tse and his disciples appeared in China as mankind's first apostles of peace.

«God set in the Church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers.»

But the recognition of such facts as these must not obscure Paul's sense of apostolic authority: «God has appointed in the church first apostles.»

The early Christian community recognized the authority of the first apostles who planted local churches and urged them to be faithful to the teaching they had received.

In the first chapter of the Gospel of John, by contrast, John the Baptist personally pointed those first apostles to Jesus.

The Twelve are the dozen Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Wish I had pointed out that Esther was the one chosen to save God's people, and that the first evangelists were women, and Mary Magedelene was the «first apostle to the apostles», and Philip's four daughters were all prophetesses, and in the last days, God will pour out His Spirit and young men and women will prophesy.»

If the apostles were those who were the eye witnesses of the risen Lord, then Mary Magdalene was the first apostle.

The Acts of the Apostles gives us a number of sermons preached by the first apostles.

He was the first apostle to be put to death.

Ever since the first apostles said «We must obey God rather than men» this has been a possibility.

So vast an opportunity as ours the first Apostles of Christ did not enjoy, if they had done, how certainly would they have grasped it, making it a glory to suffer and to labour for the name of Christ.

James will be the first apostle to die for the Lord, John the last.

It is not a correct inference to take Paul's list in I Corinthians 12:28 — first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues — and see all of these as «set - aside» persons performing such functions on a specialist basis.

He points out that the first apostle to the gentiles — the healed Gerasene demoniac — was a mentally ill ex-con.

The Twelve refer to the twelve Jewish men chosen by Jesus to be his closest companions and first apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel.

But even the first apostles allowed themselves to be changed by goodness in the world.

Here we have Jesus himself hand picking those first apostles whose lives would be changed for ever and who, through Jesus, would go on to change the face of the earth.

I forgot to mention that along with the word «believe» used by our Lord and the first apostles (Peter, etc.), Paul seems to often refer to our Hope or calling.

Meaning «gift of God,» Matthew was the first apostle to write the Gospel of Jesus, according to the New Testament, and so has a solid religious foundation.

In the New Testament, Andrew is the first apostle to be called by Jesus.