These are the notes from the Leadership Training Time (LTT) at Southlands Church International; Thursday morning's session. I hope you enjoy and can glean something from God.
USA LTT – Southlands
Chris Weinand
June 26, 2008 AM Meeting #1
Galatians 2:1-
Always Paul… AN apostle. Not Paul, THE apostle.
The best way to see an apostle is to peek over their shoulder to see what they have done. How many churches have they planted, lead to fruitfulness, been integral in bring back to health, etc. Not necessarily leaders of large churches or even dynamic preachers/teachers. What they truly have done is the defining principle.
We need multitudes of apostles to do the work ahead of us. There are many more apostles in the Word than just the few who are highlighted. We need more apostles than teachers or even prophets/prophetesses.
Are you looking for/wondering what God wants you to be doing? Apostolic ministry is wide and varying. Do not get caught up in believing that only preaching, teaching, etc. is the only apostolic ministry avenue. Find, listen to and follow your calling.
He has served in ministry for 20-some-odd years, pasturing, associate pasturing, missions pastor, etc. But he heard every year from God about go to the nations. He thought he was heeding this message in his ministry positions, but he voice got louder ever year. Mike had always wished that God had given him missionary’s blood, literally. He wished that someone in his family ancestry had been a missionary to the nations. Then after so many years in ministry, his mother called with information on an uncle and aunt who had go to the far-east in missions. They were ministering to a group of people in a village when a bandit intruded and the end result was both missionaries being shot and killed. This embolded Mike and he visited that village and their grave. When the people of the village learned about his purpose for being there, they were afraid he had returned there to avenge his family’s deaths. Instead he began to minister to them and when their youth began to be radically changed the people asked him to stay. They ended up building a ministry/community center where multitudes have and continue to be ministered to. He now is envading the sex-trafficking industry in east Asia.>
Chris then led the meeting in a very different direction. He brought people up to the front who were in missions-type ministries both domestically and internationally. He asked everyone who feels a stirring in the heart for going to the nations to come and be prayed for by these people. He also called on anyone who felt as though they had lost their voice (not physically, but spiritually) to come up and be prayed over, that God would release them and give them their voice back to minister. Over half of those in the meeting (200+) went up for prayer for one of these two reasons. The rest of the meeting was spent in powerful prayer for these groups.
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