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How to Empower Apostolic Leaders

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Young apostolic leaders have a spark that needs to be stoked into full-on flame!

Young apostolic leaders have a spark that needs to be stoked into full-on flame!

[Check out “How to Identify an Apostolic Leader“]

By Eric Rafferty

When we look around the landscape of the church something is missing. Far too often, apostolic leaders are exiled instead of empowered, or when they do try new things, they fail and fall into isolation. What does it look like to empower apostolic leaders into fruitful maturity? Here are five things that every leader can do to empower young apostolic leaders (whether you are personally gifted for apostolic ministry or not!)

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APE Postcard

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Thought I would share this postcard with you and ask you to share it around. If you enjoy this blog, think about posting this on a FB timeline or a blog/website. Maybe even email it out to a few friends. I am even thinking about printing a few out to give to people I come across that would love this blog. I had this made for an ebook insert and I think it looks great and captures what we want to be about in this space. So…calling all the evangelists…share away 🙂

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How To Identify An Apostolic Leader

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many things may be blooming in your ministry, but apostolic leaders will lead you to the edge to get those next few buds.

Ministry may be blooming, but apostolic leaders are focused on the edge; where things haven’t blossomed yet.

[Also check out “How to Identify and Evangelist in Your Ministry“]

By Jon Hietbrink

For most of my life in the church, “apostle” has been something of a dirty word.

Either because it’s assumed to be an expired gift, or because we’ve so often seen it abused, most of us (even those of us who are gifted as apostolic leaders!) struggle with the idea of calling something “apostolic” and have difficulty finding the right language to identify this gift in its emerging forms. Toward that end, here are five key indicators that might evidence an apostolic gift at work in you or your community, and some reflection questions to help you identify the emerging apostolic leaders in your midst!

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Church Planter Podcast

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mza_6838981982579193964.170x170-75I had the privilege of doing an hour podcast a few weeks ago with Church Planter Podcast. I was able to share about our InterVarsity work, Release the APE, and my concerns with evangelism in the church today. It was fun to kick around a few thoughts with them. Already, I have had one church planter contact me about partnering to reach a new campus in LA together. Pretty cool.

So if you want to hear what I had to say, or would like to subscribe to this weekly podcast, you can do so below.

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The Love/Hate Relationship With Planting

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last year waiting to meet up with an interested student at USC...they were 30min late and it was me, the lemonade and a lot of awkward.

It’s awkward to wait for people alone and get stood up…Just me & the lemonade…cool

By Beau Crosetto

“I am lonely.”

“I can’t do this anymore.”

“I don’t know if I have what it takes.”

“I think I could be doing something better with my life.”

“I am sure there are other things that I am better at that I could spend my time doing.”

If you have ever said something like this, then keep reading!

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Sentness: Kim Hammond’s New Book

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41kEtWeeVCL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_Today is the launch day for Kim Hammond’s new book. I haven’t read it yet but I am sure it will kick butt. Kim is one of the funniest guys I know, so I am sure there are some laughs in here.

But beyond that, he lives “sentness”. He moved his family to America from Australia and they have taken it in the chops multiple times. One of his boys got cancer and they have had to battle that, and now Kim himself is battling cancer as you read this. But they will not turn back! He loves America and the church and God has sent him and his family here. They are committed to this country and helping us grow!

If anyone can write this book, Kim can. He has been living this call out to the extreme.

Buy his book

1) Its going to help you live into mission better

2) Kim is a great guy and you can support him tangibly in this tough time.

 

Do me a favor and support Kim by giving a tweet to his new book.

Get @kimhammond new book “Sentness”. It releases today!  http://www.releasetheape.com/sentness-kim-hammonds-new-book/

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The Five Habits of Highly Missional People

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The-5-Habits-Ebook-Cover-Michael-Frost-Square72This is a must read ebook! I really think this is a winner and I am going to make my staff read it and recommend it to all the students in our ministry. I love this book by Michael Frost because it gives a great hook about evangelism and why and how we should do it, but then it gives us very very practical ways to live out a Jesus-centered life. He gives us an acronym, BELLS, and each letter is a simple yet challenging habit that if you live into with community God is going to move.

In his ebook @michaelfrost6 gives us practices to live by not just simply ideas to think about. @releasetheape

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What you don’t transform, you will transmit

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Walking

By Beau Crosetto

Here is a great excerpt I read that I wanted to pass along. Any believer needs to be thinking about their shadow self and how they are bringing it into the light of Jesus. I hope this helps as you continue to press the edge of mission as an apostle, prophet or evangelist.

“It is really shocking how little Jesus is shocked by human failure and sin. In fact, it never appears that he is upset at sinners at all. He is only and consistently upset at people who do not think they are sinners. This momentous insight puts him centuries ahead of modern psychology and right at the center of rare but authentic religion. So much so, that most Christianity itself never notices or addresses this pattern. It is an inconvenient truth.

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