The Replaced Apostle: How the Devil Derailed the Church - Softcover

Barkhuizen, Eldo

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798224535231

Publisher: Eldo Barkhuizen, 2024

Synopsis

For Christians to mature in their faith, Ephesians 4:11-15 says they need the ministry of the prophet, shepherd-teacher and apostle.

However, in church history, the church replaced the apostolic office with a new office soon after the apostle John died at the end of the first century AD.

In this book you will discover . . .

• How this new office took over from that of the apostle
• What it was and major errors its holders brought into church history
• Other apostles in the New Testament apart from the Twelve and Paul
• Whether there are still genuine apostles today
• What the New Testament says about female apostles
• Whether your church or denomination follows the New Testament blueprint
• How all this affects you personally and steps you must take to avoid spiritual shipwreck
• Why what took place in the early history of the church still sends out shock waves today

You will be either disturbed or encouraged by what you read here.

But armed with these facts, you will never see the church in the same way again.

About this title

About the Author

Based in the UK, author Eldo Barkhuizen has freelanced as a copy editor and proofreader in Christian publishing for 24 years.

He committed his life to Christ in 1974, and began studying church history and biblical Hebrew and Greek when a student at a South African university in 1975.

He has copy-edited and proofread both popular and academic books on biblical studies, theology and church history for publishers such as Inter-Varsity Press, Sheffield Academic Press, Zondervan, SPCK, HarperCollins, Routledge, Blackwell, Paternoster Press, Kingsway and Hodder & Stoughton.

His books aim to show the dangerous flaws in much current Christian belief and practice, and give clear, accurate and corrective biblical teaching.

'To root out and to pull down,

To destroy and to throw down,

To build and to plant.'

(Jeremiah 1:10)

Edition details

• Publisher: Eldo Barkhuizen
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798224535231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122