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Bible Note: Dear Brother Brad, Good points. Thank you, as always, for your great posts! There are some that see the fellow named in Acts 1:23 as Barnabas. I'm not sure I see how that squares with Acts 15:22, but I'm given to understand there are some traditional and textual reasons to accept it. Just because it triggered neurons: There's another kind of successionism. Some Baptists hold to something called "Baptist Successionism." It's a perspective that there is this continuous chain of churches that have held the same doctrine as Baptists all the way back to the time of Christ. I don't hold much truck with the theory. Sounds like an idea rooted in greater hubris than history. But there are a rather wide variety of Baptists that claim it is so. Just thought that bit of trivia might be interesting. In Him, Doc |