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Essentials of Salvation articles are free to use as long as proper citation is made. This site is a ministry of Apostolics of Anderson, a church located in Anderson, Missouri.

  • Jerusalem Counsel stained glass artwork.
    Jerusalem Council

    The first Christian counsel (the Council of Jerusalem) explored the boundaries of Judaism’s effect on Christian praxis. What could stay, and what was relegated to the past will be examined through the lens of narrative criticism.

  • Spanish Mission style architecture building.
    Mission of the Church

    Apostolic Pentecostals grew from the holiness movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Because of our roots, we have adopted a mostly congregational form of church polity. The progress of time has modified this, helping us to have a unique polity, based on an Apostolic Pentecostal hermeneutic.

  • Questioning Jesus' Authority

    The questioning of Jesus’ authority in the Gospel According to Luke is a great example of the use of an Old Testament quotation by Jesus to defend not only His authority, but also His deity.