Other Dispensational Issues
Grace Bible College has some notable disagreements among those who subscribe to its doctrinal statement: whether the Church, the Body of Christ, began with the conversion of the Apostle Paul in Acts 9 or with the beginning of his formal ministry in Acts 13; whether or not good works were necessary for salvation in the Kingdom dispensation of Christ and Peter; and whether the other apostles (and all other Christians) were brought into the Body of Christ after the beginning of the present dispensation or instead remained in the Kingdom Church. This last point is important because it has implications for one's position on the normativeness of the general epistles for today (those who are "12-out" regard the general epistles as promulgating "Kingdom truth" whereas those who are "12-in" tend to see the general epistles as dispensing revelation for the Church, the Body of Christ, though they do not reveal Paul's distinctive message of the "mystery"). Another more extreme dispensational position is the "Acts 28" view, which maintains that the beginning of the Church, the Body of Christ, did not occur until the end of the Book of Acts and only regards the prison and pastoral epistles of Paul to be "to" the Church, the Body of Christ. Mainstream dispensationalists believe the Church began in Acts 2 and consider the Grace Bible College view as a moderate form of ultradispensationalism and the Acts 28 view to be an extreme form of ultradispensationalism.
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