You Might Be A Five-Fold Ministry If…

It’s no secret around here that I strongly believe in having all of the gifts described in Ephesians 4:7-11 functioning in a body of believers.  To that end, I’ve developed a little test to help you, yes YOU, determine what your “five-fold” or APEST gifting is.  Are you ready?

If you are living on a mission from Jesus and fathering others…. you are a Christian.

If you hear God’s voice well enough to declare it to others…. you are a Christian.

If you love to tell lost people about Jesus and have success in making disciples…. you are a Christian.

If you love and care for God’s people on an intimate level…. you are a Christian.

If you know how to teach in a way that gives people understanding of Jesus and His purposes…. (Say it with me everyone!) you are a Christian.

But…

If you are equipping other believers to live on mission and father others….or if you are training other believers to hear God’s voice…or if you are equipping younger believers to reach their friends….or you are giving other believers the skills to care for hurting believers….or you are helping believers teach others….well….you get the idea.

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

Therefore it says,
‘When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.’

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,  to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ… Ephesians 4:7-13