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The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

Private confession... was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.