The Need for a Pastor

The Need for a Pastor

Elvis Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

The need for pastor changes as you mature in Christ, we need proper teaching of spiritual maturity so that there is foundation, and that there is continue spiritual growth in Christ and in the body of Christ. –(Heb. 5:12-14, 6:1-2)

We grow as believers in Christ from babes, to children, then to young people, and then become fathers. We are called to be fathers, and then there are fathers of the faith, which are the apostles. We need apostolic fathers in the church once again. To lay the foundation for spiritual maturity, and to raise up fathers, and lead the fathers. –(1 Jn. 2:12-14)

There is maturity as a believers, and then there maturity in the gifts, both are needed, maturity in the gifts is for function and for the edification of the church, and maturity as a believer is for character and your witness. –(2 Pet. 3:18, Rom. 12:4)

Apart from that, the ministry of the pastor is for the home church, the church in the home, not for the center equipping house, Pastors are to feed, care and love the sheep. Their ministry is more for babes and the children, then after that we need the pastoral ministry for love and care that the Lord have giving them. –(Rom. 16:5,10)

The church in the home, is the church meeting, the center equipping house is for the ministry meeting, it is the ministry of the apostle, prophet and teacher. Today most pastors of local churches are not pastors, instead they are teachers, however there is no such thing as a one man ministry, we need the plural elders, with a set man who leads by vision and is cooperation, coherence, continuity with the elders, but has the last word. The apostles, prophets, teachers are the leading elders, and however, pastors are to ministry and their ministry is in the home church. –(1 Cor. 12:28)

Apart from that, when you’re a spiritual babe, or a spiritual children in the church you need more the ministry of pastors and teachers, but as you grow into young men or toward fathers you need the ministry of apostles and prophets, yes all need the ministry of pastors, all need the ministry of teachers, all need the ministry of prophets, and all need the ministry of apostles. –(Eph. 3:5)

However, the need for a pastor changes as you mature in Christ, in order to maintain growth and to continue to mature you need the ministry of the apostles, and the ministry of the prophets. And spiritual fathers need the ministry of the apostles to lead them, and they need both the ministry of the apostles and prophets to maintain growth and to continue to mature, for we will always grow and always mature in Christ. –(Eph. 3:5)

The need for the five-fold ministry will change in the future when we come to the unity of the faith, knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. In the Tabernacle of Moses, when you enter the holy place, where there is the Table of Showbread, the Altar of Incense, the golden Lampstand, there are five pillars of acacia wood, meaning the five-fold ministry. Most of the history of the church has be in the outer court where the Bronze Laver is, and the Altar of Burnt offering, soon the day will come when we will enter pass the five pillars of acacia wood into the holy place, and then some day we will come when we will enter into the Most Holy Place. When we pass through the five pillars of acacia wood the need for the five-fold ministry will change. I don’t know what kind of change it will be, but the way we relate and their service toward us will change. –(Eph. 4:11-16)

Furthermore, maturity as a believer and maturity in the gifts, maturity on a personal level and maturity on a corporate level, maturity is the will of Christ, maturity is the will of the Father, and maturity is the will of the Holy Spirit, and maturity should be your will and your congregation’s will. –(Eph. 4:13-15)

Copyright © 2007 Elvis Iverson All Rights Reserved