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This is a guide to historic Christian beliefs. As Packer says, "This book sets out in short compass what seems to me to be the permanent essentials of Christianity, viewed as both a belief system and a way of life. … As I often tell my students, theology is for doxology and devotion—that is, the praise of God and the practice of godliness. It should therefore be presented in a way that brings the...

Then they drew lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles. ACTS 1:26 Although the Gospels call the same people “disciples” and “apostles” (Mark 3:7, 14, 20), the terms are not synonyms. Disciple means “pupil, learner”; apostle means “emissary, representative,” in the sense of one who is sent with the full authority of the sender. The “twelve apostles of the Lamb” (Rev. 21:14), as distinct from the apostles (“representatives”)
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