This book is about the Apostles. Specifically, it's a book about the Twelve Apostles and their unique role and calling by the Lord Jesus Christ. Connected with this study of the Twelve is an analysis of a phenomenon that is connected intimately with them - the endowment and empowering of the Holy Spirit. It is the author's contention that what is commonly referred to as the "baptism of the Spirit" was a unique and peculiarly apostolic event. He shows that the Bible is clear on this. Further, if this contention is true, then the claims and assertions of numerous popular preachers, so-called...