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Pennsylvania’s Prayer Warrior: Abby Abildness And Her Dominionist Crusade In The Commonwealth

Bucks County Beacon

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“ ‘The honorific ‘Apostle’ designates a leading church office in the NAR,’ according to Frederick Clarkson, a Senior Research Analyst at progressive think tank Political Research Associates. As further explained by Clarkson, the NAR teaches that, ‘the only legitimate church offices, as described in the Book of Ephesians, are apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors … This is called the ‘fivefold ministry.’”

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