The Five Fold Ministry of the Body of Christ
- Author
- The Epistles
- Published
- Thu 13 Feb 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.livebehindtheveil.com/episode/the-five-fold-ministry-of-the-body-of-christ
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Summary:
The five fold ministry of Christ was to bring forth the Body of Christ into a maturity, into the fullness of Christ in the earth. These gift ministries are not a position but a commission to servitude to the Body of Christ just as their Lord and Master came to serve the Father's will in the earth.
Quotes:
There's a lot of people out there today that say we don't need apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. But the problem is we do.
We need these apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, they all serve a purpose.
The whole point of apostles and prophets is to build up the body. And basically they're servants.
...as we go on into this kingdom manifestation within His body, there will be many apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, but you won't even know who they are.
There will be no identifiable positions in the kingdom .
The flow of the family, the flow of the body, is going to be for the building up of the body of Christ, not the identifying of certain ministries.
An apostolic ministry was sent .
...the ministry of an apostolic ministry is to build up, to minister to, to shepherd the flock.
A prophet has a shepherd's heart.
Evangelist, he works within the body, within the church, as an encouragement.
The shepherd leads the sheep into the place where they can partake of the best meadow, the best of the food. And they watch over these people, they watch over these sheep, and bring them forth into the fullness .
All of them were for that purpose, to build up the body of Christ.
References:
And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors an teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, that is, Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
He got up from supper and *laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.
Takeaway:
Christ gave the five fold ministries to the church. These gift ministries are servants to the Body and bond servants to Christ until we all attain to the knowledge of God, into a mature man, into the fullness of Christ in this earth.
