How long has the term "Apostolic" been used to describe the Oneness and
Acts 2:38 message? Since the beginning?
I ask this because, as it appears from my area, many churches didn't start using the term until the late 1990s and early 2000s. Many elders in some of these churches still refer to themselves or the doctrine as "Holiness" or simply "Pentecostal", and they rarely (if ever) use the term "Apostolic".
The grandmother of my home church (who passed some 20+ years ago) never called herself anything but "Holiness", or so the stories go. The church my mother used to go to (and the one I attended with her regularly) used the terms "Holiness" and "Pentecostal" interchangeably.
So, is the term "Apostolic" (the way we use it anyway) relatively modern?
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I am Apostolic
I believe in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.
I believe in water baptism by immersion in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.
I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, evidenced by speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
I believe in living a holiness lifestyle, inwardly and outwardly, without which no man shall see the Lord.
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