The 5Q Central blog brings together practitioners to share their experience and advice on how to release the full potential of the APEST in your church or organization. Here are working descriptions of each of the fivefold functions...
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What does it mean to be a prophetic church, a prophetic body of people? To fully answer this question we need to see the big picture of exactly what Jesus has called his church to be...
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It’s the week before Christmas and all through the blog... discover an excerpt from the 5Q book that anchors the apostolic gifts firmly in the Incarnation, the Christ With Us.
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Why Companies Thrive on the Fivefold While Churches Ignore It Today’s blog is a re-post from the StarfishYoU SubStack . Several years ago, my wife and I sat on the couch late at night and watched a random documentary on Netflix called “Happy”, which explores the science of human happiness through years of…
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A Comparison and Contrast of the Romans 12, Ephesians 4 and 1 Corinthians 12 gifts. Have you ever wondered what the difference is between the different spiritual gift passages in the Bible?
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Over the past several years I have become convinced of the importance of incorporating APEST thinking in to all church planting efforts. I think it is particularly significant when discussing church planting teams...
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In today’s podcast with Jessie Cruickshank, you will be lead through some of our times’ greatest classic theological training files. Which animated hero has the best philosophy for life? What does it mean to “Go slow to go fast to go next”?...
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This week I had someone ask me what got me involved in the topic of APEST. I shared how I found APEST to be part of the solution for two different issues...
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The five-fold ministry described in Ephesians 4:11-13 as gifts from Jesus to the body of believers was meant to address the very real issues we see playing out on the national social stage. All five functions were meant to enact particular aspects of God’s overarching will for us. They were also meant to challenge a distorted focus on any one function. All five riders are equally needed and they exist in state of inherent tension. The inherent tensions were meant to provoke a process of checks and balances over one another.
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As the 5Q Symphony continues to grow, this week we are happy to introduce Jessie Cruickshank. Jessie is part of the 100M movements team and here to outline the upcoming workbook to help you really get 5Q going in your Church or Organization: Activating 5Q...
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