Terry Virgo On The Existence Of Apostles Today

"Is this church properly founded? That's an apostolic work. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3 'when I came to you, as a wise master builder'- the greek word gives us our word architect, someone who sees the whole plan- 'I laid a foundation.' Now there he's talking about one local church, he did his apostolic work making sure it was properly founded. So that was part for the role of apostles and that work will continue until Jesus comes, the necessity of churches being properly founded...

"Jesus ascended on high: it doesn't say he gave some priests, he gave some clergymen - it doesn't say that, it's not in the Bible. It says he gave some apostles to make sure churches are properly founded on their identity in Christ... establishing the community, giving them a sense of identity, purpose and meaning... establishing bodies of Christ if you like, in town after town after town. Places where Jesus was manifest in phenomenal glory again and again and again. that's part of our calling as a family of churches, from generation to generation. Let's plant church after church where the presence of Christ can be known in that particular place"

This is a quote from a sermon by Terry Virgo at ChristChurch London. You can download it here.