The New Apostolic Ministry

Many of us have been under the impression that the Acts of the Apostles ended with the book of Acts. This is not so. God raises up apostles to put in order those things that He is set to accomplish in the earth.
For years the church has known the ministry of the evangelist and the pastor. In the last forty years we saw the restoration of the teaching ministry. Then, we had years of the prophetic ministry. Teaching, preaching, healing and even prophesying are not sufficient to reap the harvest. Another type of ministry is necessary.
The Apostolic Ministry in its fullness is the solution (Matt. 9:35-38; 10:1-15)

God has given the revelation of the mysteries of his purposes to the apostle and the prophet (Eph. 3:1-7). The doctrinal foundation of a church cannot be laid by a prophet alone, since we are told that the church must continue in the Apostle’s Doctrine (Acts 2:42,43).

The Church has come to a restoration of the Acts of the Apostles. God is imparting His Authority to some, for this purpose, and we must receive it, accept it and release it. To deny the relevance of Apostles to this age is to suggest that the Church is perfected and performing it’s God given mandate. It clearly is not.

God is still raising up apostles because the church has not yet reached its goal, because the nets are not yet fully mended. We are yet ineffective in our ministry to establish the Kingdom and as such we are not yet ready for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus will not return until all the things spoken by the prophets are restored (Acts 3:19-21).

Most churches do not have the original foundations and are built upon man-made doctrines and premises. Too many churches are raised up by non-apostolic ministries and are therefore not fully formed, reflecting only the character of the particular ministry that raised it up. For God to reach His goal in the earth, the establishment of His Kingdom on the earth, He must initiate a new apostolic era in the earth. This is what he has already done, and we are in that New Apostolic Age.