The five functional roles mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 4:11,12 represent the breadth of leadership giftings in the local and global church. What are they? How do you describe them?

1. Developing
The Fivefold Leadership Giftings
Eph 4:1-13
A. The text
B. A recital of
God’s actions
C. The response
© Viv Grigg, Sept 03

2. 1. Worthy of the Calling to be a Sending
Community
Intimacy with God, Humility before Men
(Eph 4:1-3)  What was our calling as a church?
 Humility, gentleness, patience, preferring
others in love
 Unity of the Spirit (v3)
 The necessity of the baptizer’s fire
during the NZ revival
 To cleanse from pride, anger, greed,
(Zacheus day)
 Continuous revival
 Yesterday’s brokenness is not today’s
brokenness
 Holiness and separation is in tension with
contextualisation

3. 2. Unity as Context
of Emergence of Leaders
(Eph 4:3-5)
 Keep the Unity of the Spirit
 In the Bond of Peace
Foundational commitments
 7 Reasons we are one
Toleration, forbearance

4. 3. Community of the Frail,
Endowed by Grace
Eph 4: 7
 Gifts from God
 They depend on grace
 Grace is given to failures
 Confessional groups
enable an understanding
of grace
 Grace is apportioned as
he wills
 The gifts and the calling
are irrevocable
 – they remain with age
 Developed through
experiences in small
settings of
encouragement
 Impartation through
laying on of hands is a
Biblical pattern on
occasions

5. 4. Biblical Categories of Leadership Style
(Eph 4:11-13)
 The Diversity of God’s 5
Leadership/ Eldership Gifts
 Apostle
 Prophet
 Evangelist
 Pastor
 Teacher
 For equipping the saints
 15-20 other gifts – mercy,
administration, gifts of healing etc.
 For the work of the ministry
 of preaching good news to the poor
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Connecting
Breakthrough gifts
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6. 5. Marks of the Prophet
 Church is built on apostles and
prophets
 Prophet calls into being then evangelist
and apostle birth
 Prophets called Kings to War
 Pathos – God to people, people to
God
 Developed from the intercessory
 Deeply emotional people, often artistic
 Strange actions model the voice of
God
 Hear God and do the Unusual (Gideon)
 The voice that breaks through in
spiritual warfare
 They craft written visions for
societies

7. 6. The Apostle: Movement Leadership
2 Corinthians
 The Apostle as Sent One
 A sent one - God’s direct calling, affirmed by the fruit and by other prophets and
apostles
 e.g. set aside Paul and Barnabas
 The Apostle as Father and Connector
 Grandfathering networks
 E.g. Encarnacao Network, 15 organisations, spawning 200+ works, Stand
amazed at the handiwork of God
 The Apostle as One with Authority
 suffering more than others (2 Cor 11:23-29)
 fatherhood, exercised in gentleness and by influence
 does not demand money but supports coworkers (11:7)

8. 7. The Urban Poor Pastor:
The Mindset of the Shepherd
 Image of the people
 Slum people as sheep
 Slum people as oppressed
 Image of the leader
 Jesus as pastor
 Authority from God and
from the sheep
 Image of the mission
 The church as salt and light
 Goal orientation of a
shepherd
 Sheep to pasture
 Leading the Oppressed to
Freedom

9. Creating a People of God from a
Slave People
 The Nature of Our People
 oppressed
 harassed
 downtrodden
 bowed down
 A Model: Lilok Urban
Poor Pastor’s Training in
Manila
 From destitution to dignity
 From nonentity to identity
 Releasing people from
small boxes to creativity
 Identifying giftedness

10. 8. The Thrill of the Teacher
 The delight to order truth
 The Delight to see life change
 Seeing the switches go on
 E.g. land rights, micro-
enterprise, leadership giftings
at Indian and African
consultations
 Seeing the outcomes of
teaching
 E.g. Servants to Asia’s Urban
Poor and their incarnation
 Why travel to cities? – the
multiplying effect of training
people who are already
engaged in ministry

11. 9. The Evangelist
 Able to gather
 Able to create interest
 Able to communicate to the point of
conversion
 Able to follow through social relationships
 Associated with healing and deliverance
gifts
E.g. pastor in Mumbai

12. 10. The Fruit of Functioning Citywide Gifts:
The Fullness of Christ in the Structures of the City
(Eph 4: 13-15)
 Maturity of Individuals
 The Connecting of the
Ligaments
 The Vision of
Wholeness
 In the community
 In the church

13. C. Implications for Action
 Those who have a
suggestion, an inkling of
these gifts
 Apostle
 Prophet
 Evangelist
Seek prayer for the anointing
of God and blessing of God
on those gifts.
Others stirred to fulfil their
gifts and calling seek
prayer also