Triperspectivalism and Leadership
It seems as though there is a recognition in various church movements of the importance of understanding different leadership gifting.
As Bill has been championing in this context and Alan Hirsch is bringing to the foreground in the missional movement, we have neglected the APEST distinctions in Ephesians 4.
Another way of thinking about various leadership giftings has popped up - mostly from what I have seen in the Reformed Missional movements (like Acts29)
It is a paradigm and philosophy of ministry based on the 3 offices of Christ: Prophet, Priest and King.
They talk about leaders being gifted in these three areas. From what I can tell, the prophet role is described similarly to the discussions we've been having, the priest role is that of the shepherd and the king role seems apostolic.
Perhaps the weakness of these distinctions is that they are perhaps more theologically rather than biblically based in a text(s).
My point is that others are thinking about these same subjects profitably.
If you are interested, blogger Timmy Brister has compiled a lot of resources on triperspectivalism HERE.
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posted by Dan Masshardt at 7:49 AM
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Dave Ramsey told a story at Catalyst 2008, about pulling horses. I don't remember the specific numbers but something like a good pulling horse could pull 8000 pounds. But two good pulling horses, who had never been harnessed together, could pull 24000 pounds. More than twice the amount! A team trained together could pull much more.
Here is my simple problem with the leadership of the CGGC. We should be able to do more together than apart. But we do less. And the reason is leadership.
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