A Shift in Leadership

The Transition

church will shift as well. Our desire should be to raise up an apostolic company of believers who all have a sense of being "sent." The entire Church needs to shift into this dimension. The church in the book of Acts was first and foremost an apostolic church. They ministered in apostolic power and turned the known world upside down. The book is called, The Acts of the Apostles. This Book will help pastors place themselves and their churches into a position to shift. It will give them the characteristics and ingredients of an apostolic ministry, including the steps they need to take to strengthen the local work. When a leader shifts into an apostolic position, the demands upon this anointing will increase substantially. As mentioned earlier, we are now living in a time of restoration. God is restoring the apostolic ministry. He is also restoring the revelation of this ministry. Many leaders who have been called into this ministry are seeing for the first time who they really are. They are no longer looking at themselves through the eyes of tradition. There is a shift in leadership taking place throughout the earth. Many leaders are hearing the call to shift and transition from being pastoral to becoming apostolic. There are many leaders that are apostles, but they are so bound by the tradition of being pastors, that they do not know or see it. You cannot fulfill an apostolic calling with a pastoral mind-set. A pastoral mind-set will limit a leader and confine him to the local church. Many leaders are beginning to realize that what they have been doing is apostolic, yet they have been limited by a pastoral

15