Do you know who you have in your MC, church, or ministry?  You have been given gifts from God – and those gifts are the people who are with you.  Starting a church, I can say that each person feels so much like a precious gift from God.  That’s good for me as a pastor.  But they are also gifts in another sense.  The role God has for them in the MC is a gift.

We’ve been looking at APEST recently in our communities.   I taught about it and gave everyone some tasks related to learning and personal discernment.  On top of that, I heard Alan Hirsch speak on it last week at the ECO/Fellowship of Presbyterians gathering in Dallas.  So I guess the whole five fold ministry thing is very much on our minds.

What, you may ask, is the five fold ministry all about?  It’s rooted in…