Would to God that all men and women who feel called to be apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds/teachers would soberly reexamine what these ministries were in the first century and in the thought of God.

So what happens when gifted Christians are reared in a human organization built on unbiblical systems rather than growing up naturally in an organic expression of the body of Christ? To put it another way, what happens when a gifted Christian’s only experience is in the modern institutional church?

If a group of believers gathers around Jesus Christ alone (rather than a doctrine, a theological system, or a ritual) —and they are void of a clergy system— —then that group will eventually produce all the gifts and gifted ones that exist within the body of Christ.

The doctrine of the restoration of “the five-fold ministry” is over 180 years old. And it’s been repackaged from movement to movement.