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John Stott found on his many travels that contemporary models of Christian leadership were often shaped more by culture than by Christ. In stark contrast, he urges that our view be determined by our view of the church, not the other way round. Focusing on 1 Corinthians 1–4, he demonstrates the centrality of the theme of ‘power through weakness’. He explains the role of the Holy Spirit in God’s...

Three or four times we read in the New Testament of ‘apostles of the churches’. These were messengers sent out by a particular church on a particular mission, as Epaphroditus was the Philippians’ ‘apostle’ (NIV ‘messenger’; Phil. 2:25), and as certain brothers were ‘representatives (apostoloi) of the churches’ (2 Cor. 8:23). We would probably call them ‘missionaries’ or ‘mission partners’. The overwhelming use of ‘apostle’ in the New Testament, however, is in relation to the Twelve, whom Jesus himself
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