We need a refreshing type of evangelist to emerge today that is more like Philip.
Ready to follow the Spirit wherever He leads – spontaneous and not driven by their own agenda – but also trained in the gospel and willing and able to lead people to Jesus from any point in a conversation.
Beau Crosetto
Vote For The APE: Top Blog
We were nominated as a top blog on Verge, a blog dedicated to accelerating movements of the gospel. It’s pretty cool that someone put us up there and now we can vote!
If our blog makes it into the top five, then anyone who voted gets a free digital pass to their conference.
So there are two reasons you should vote:
1) You can get a digital pass to the conference
2) You can help others find our blog by getting it towards the top (The only reason I knew we had been nominated is that I was getting a ton of incoming links from Verge…people were checking us out)
From Verge:
*The list will close on September 4th at 11:59PM. At that time, the Top 5 websites will be tallied. Whoever nominated the Top 5 sites will receive a Verge 2013 Digital Access Pass worth $129!
Does “Apostolic” Confuse You?
This summer I have had multiple conversations with long standing people in ministry about the word and calling of the “apostolic”. People that genuinely didn’t know how to talk about it. They were great conversations because the people were open and curious…not hostile. They really wanted to understand and know how we define apostolic on this blog and what we really mean here when we say this word and push people towards it.
But it made me think about many of you and the friends you have. It makes me ask this question,
Preachers of LA
I first saw the video on Phil Cooke’s site.
I don’t know what to even say…I will let the prophets speak in the comments
*Updated*
As I have thought about this a little more today and even showed my neighbor, who is not a christian, the video, I have had a few laughs and a little perspective.
My neighbors comment,
“Oh, so the church is supposed to take care of you huh? Make you rich? Ok, I get it now. Geeeeeeez”
What is the DIfference Between an Evangelist & Apostle? Part 2
[This is part of a series called “What is the difference between an evangelist and an apostle?” check out the other posts here]
In response to my post about the difference between and apostle and evangelist, Bob Mullins had this to say,
So then an apostle starts new things… with what? Paul went to new territories & started churches amongst pagans…. so how did they become followers of Jesus if not by hearing the Gospel evangelistically from Paul ? I think you have these two gifts confused. An Evangelist causes the church to grow out…by winning people to Christ…but lack the ability to mature them….the apostle establishes them and puts authority & leadership in place that enables them (now the church) to grow up….apostles usually operate in all of the five-fold ministries mentioned in Eph 4.
I think Bob brings up a great point here and I agree with much of what he says, but I have a few things I would push back on.
Three Over-Looked Leadership Roles
This is an old post from 2008, but someone forwarded it to me and it has great insights into the forgotten roles: Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist.
Alan Hirsch posted this in Christianity Today, asking
“Where have all the APE’s gone?”
Who would’ve thought…many of us are here now!
I am Proud of San Diego State!
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I came across this video recap of the San Diego State InterVarsity ministry that I was part of and led from 2005-2012. They are doing great and I am so thankful for the leaders that took over for me and are kicking butt.
As an apostolic leader one of my biggest fears is that what I work on with God won’t burst foreword after I am gone. An apostolic leader always wants things to do better when they leave and have leaders that are better than them taking over.
Well, I think alot of things are better at San Diego State now that I have left. There is some great creativity happening and this video is one example. I am thankful for some of the new things they are doing and the new leadership that is emerging.
Enjoy just like I did!
Does God Speak To Us?
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Here is a cool video that James Choung did with “Explore God” on hearing God.
Free Book Give Away: “Miracle Work”
We are giving away 5 copies of “Miracle Work” by Jordan Seng this week!
I am really excited to give this book away to you all. I was just at IVP two weeks ago right after this book released and they generously offered me 5 COPIES TO GIVE AWAY to you.
I love this book so far because it is such a power faith builder for the every day person to do miracles in Jesus name. I think Jordan Seng has excellent stories, theology and handles for all of us to step into the supernatural life like Jesus commanded.
He comes across very genuine, honest and down to earth and that is hard to do in a book like this.
For anyone that wants to learn more about the supernatural or take a step further, this is a MUST READ! I will give this book to many on my own dime.
Here is how to enter yourself for the drawing…
What is the Gospel?
What are you sharing with the world?
By Beau Crosetto
There is a huge debate in our culture about what is the ”full gospel” and as an evangelist this is very important to me because I want to communicate to people very well what God’s good news is.
I am very concerned with the way that we work to reduce and simplify the gospel, compartmentalizing into our theological camp. Some of us fight for the language of the Kingdom and focus on Jesus and the gospels. Others of us fight for the atonement stating the gospel is only and exclusively penal substitution. We argue from Paul’s letters and hammer the cross. Others are sick of the whole ordeal and are reverting back to the peaceful language of shalom found in the Old Testament.
But what if the gospel is all three ideas? Shalom, The Kingdom, and Atonement.