Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern day believers live out the teachings of the First Century Church.

This podcast is part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard.

Dr. Bernard has dedicated his life to studying the Bible and helping believers apply its message to their daily lives.

In Apostolic Life in the 21st century, Dr. Bernard answers your questions about what the Bible teaches and how those teachings

apply to everyday life. Thank you for joining us for this broadcast. I think just suffice it to say

that the last two years have been really unpredictable and chaotic.

And we've had a lot of feedback here at the world headquarters of the United Pentecostal Church

from pastors and ministry leaders saying that these have been the last couple years have been the most

difficult years of their ministry. It's been hard to know what to do.

So as a former pastor and the current leader of the United of Pentecostal Church International,

what challenges do you see that are facing the Apostolic Church right now? Well, let's talk about challenges to me are also opportunities.

There's two sides to that.

So the greater the challenge, the greater the opportunity.

And I would first say, as a preface, that we have to make sure we maintain our personal

relationship with God.

In challenging times, unprecedented times, times where we never know what's going to happen.

We've got to maintain a bedrock, a relationship with God, prayer, worship, reading the word, study,

our relationship with our local church and pastor, our relationship with our family, our spouse.

We've got to make sure of the basics. But the challenges I

see, first of all, internally. So the UPCI is growing. The apostolic movement has reached a level of

maturity, and we have to adjust with changing circumstances, changing culture, changing times, and even, I would

say, be more biblical in some ways. So what do I mean by that? We have challenges of learning, I think,

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