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Link says: Barnabas was an apostle. Acts 4:4, 14.

Acts 4:4,14 NKJV

4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.


Sorry I don't see how this scripture proves that Barnabas was an apostle.

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Timothy and Silas--I Thes.

1 Thess 1:1, 2:6 NKJV

1 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,


sorry again this doesn't prove apostleship.


6 Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.


I see the word "apostle" used in a broder sense in this case, as in being a missionary of Christ.


Again, I believe there are two uses of this word "apostle." Used in our modern english translations. I'm not a theologian and I don't know greek, so I can only go by what other reformed preachers and teachers have said. Which is to say, I can certainly be wrong. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My main concern with this type of thinking and teaching is that it opens a doorway to allow people in the church today claiming that they are profits and appostles and that they are receiving special revelation. I don't believe the Holy Spirit is working in such a manner today. I believe in the orthodox reformed church, that there is an understanding that scripture teaches that all special revelation has ended with the death of John on the isle of Patmos.

Dave.
Soli Deo Gloria.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16