How Apostles Differ from Evangelists
Steve Fatow: How Does an Apostle Differ from an Evangelist?
How Does an Apostle differ from an evangelist? What Is the difference between a disciple and an apostle? These are questions thoughtful Christians are asking. The Scriptures offer helpful answers. Veteran ministers offer insight into understanding not only the obvious, but also some of the nuances of the distinctions of the five-fold ministry offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher.
In this video,Steve Fatow smiles as he explains one of the differences between apostles and evangelists.
What is an Apostle? Which are you? Apostle? Evangelist? Or a helper of one or the other. All ministers need one eye on the lost in order to fulfill the great commission: Go into all the world and make disciples. Revival is at hand. What part in kingdom work are you doing?
Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
The ministries were given for the benefit of believers already in the church, not primarily to swell the membership. Everybody seems to miss that point.
Thank you for this information. I recently took a spiritual gifting survey and my top 3 traits places me as follows.
1. Apostleship
2. Evangelism
3. Knowledge
Looks like I have a great deal of work ahead of me. But what an amazing task it is! Amen.
Yes, the gifts equip us to serve.