WHY I AM APOSTOLIC

The Apostolic Church, 6th & Dakota,
Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 

The Apostolic Church is not a man-made organization. It can not be traced in the Church history as a Protestant group from the Roman Catholic Church, but wherever you fine an Apostolic Church, they preach the same thing, denouncing man-made creeds and all follow the teaching of the Apostles, as they follow Jesus Christ. Therefore using the Bible as their guideline, do declare themselves to be the Church of The Lord Jesus Christ whose first members are read of in Acts 2 and 4 of the Holy Bible.

Marylou

Other than for business (earthly) we do not have organization because we believe you can not join the real Church, but must be born again of water and spirit. So if one is interested in the beginning of the Apostolic Church, he must go back beyond Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Campbell and beyond the formation of the Roman Catholic Church in 325 AD. One must go back to Calvary, to the death of Jesus Christ where by His blood, the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles was torn down, counting all under sin, but making it possible that all can be born again.

The differences in our Church and some others are... we teach:

A. Repentance (absolute dying out of sin)

                    

B. Baptism (immersion in the name of Jesus Christ, for JESUS is the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost)

C. Holy Ghost (received not as a second blessing, but as the absolute Spirit of God.) We do not teach trinity. This doctrine is not in the Bible, but began to be taught some 300 years after Christ. The Bible DOES teach one God.

(Eph. 4&5) One Lord, One faith, One baptism.

JOSHUA 23:14

Faith is the reading of good between the lines

--You know in all your hearts and in all your souls
that not one thing has failed of all the good
things which the Lord your God spoke.

                                          

    

 A PROBLEM OR A POSSIBILITY??

We all read between the lines at times

It's a mental activity that we all engage in,

when we live by faith we focus on the good.

A pessimist reads in the negativity of sin...

Two birds fly over the dessert together

the Vulture sees the rotting of a carcass,

the Hummingbird sees a fragrant flower.

Each saw what they looked for as they pass.

If you are a believer and received guidance

from our father who watches from above,

you read between the lines and know

the possibilities can be solved by His love.

If you are a pessimist and look for ills in all,

I'm sure you'll be finding problems galore.

It's how you read between the lines that tell

how seeds of failure or success grow more!!

                                         Marylou Greenhill

                                        August 24, 2009