Apostle

Apostle (Greek) means "sent one." Today, we are "messengers" for Christ when we pass on the gospel (2 Cor. 5:20). But the highest-ranking messenger is Jesus Christ himself (Heb 3:1; John 17:18). For the first decades of the assembly of God, the glorified Christ endowed 13 apostles with special authority. All the apostles had in common that they saw the Lord with their physical eyes. (Cf. Acts 1:21-22; 1 Corinthians 9:1).