CCOG Continuing Church of God. The Continuing Church of God is the little flock that traces its history from the Book of Acts, throughout the ages, and into the 2. Century. Would you like to learn more about the faithful remnantThe Five fold Ministry Gifts In The Church. Question Can you please explain what is mean by gifted ministers or the fivefold office of the New Testament as some people call Answer The following verse is the clearest explanation given by apostle Paul about the gifted ministers, 1. And He i. e. Jesus Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 1. Christ, 1. 3 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Eph 4 1. This means that God by His sovereign choice chose only some some people out of the Church to edify the Church as the gifted extended mouthpiece of Jesus Himself 1 Peter 4 1. Apostle Paul asked the following question to make the saints of God not to become jealous of gifted ministers instead know that these ministers are chosen for them to receive spiritual blessings from the Lord and act as the God ordained channel of God to release it upon their lives. Paul asked, Are all apostles Are all prophets Are all teachers 1 Cor 1. The answer to this question is No, Noo and a BIG NO This means these few gifted ministers are a gift given by God to all of us who are in the Church, so that we as the Church might get equipped to do powerful ministry for Jesus as His saints and edify the Church along with the fivefold ministers till the whole Church comes to the unity of faith and the experiential knowledge of walking with Jesus the Son of God, thus reaching a stature of a perfect spiritual man which is the fullness of Christ. The simple explanation for the fivefold gifted ministers in a nut shell is given in the following words, but it does not describe them any way in a detailed manner. Apostles Governs 2. Prophets Guides 3. Evangelists Gathers 4. Revelation Bible Study In Tamil Pdf ViewerNietzschesHinduismNietzschesIndiaAno. Download as PDF File. Text File. txt or read online. We provide excellent essay writing service 247. Enjoy proficient essay writing and custom writing services provided by professional academic writers. The Hidden History of the Human Race by Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Non Nuoc Viet Nam Ebook. Thompson The best book on exposing all the anomalies in archaeology. This is a condensed. Revelation Bible Study In Tamil Pdf' title='Revelation Bible Study In Tamil Pdf' />Pastors Guards and the 5. Teachers Grounds. All of these are the functional authority that Jesus has gifted to some people whom He has chosen by His own will to act as His ordained representative on behalf of Himself in His Church on earth. Because it is all a call to walk in the gifted authority of Jesus Himself and is not based on ones spiritual maturity, hence nobody is greater or bigger than the other in the natural way. But in the spiritual realm God will use Apostles and Prophets to lead and impart much to the Church as He has called them to be a foundation over which He expects all to build the entire Church Eph 2 2. Both apostolic and prophetic ministries are foundational ministries. All the five ministering gift of Jesus to the Church together is represented symbolically in the Scripture as the mighty hand of Gods authroity 1 Peter 5 5 6. So each fingers in our hand represent one fivefold office. Apostles are the thumb which supports all other fingers to lift anything and bring the purpose of God to fulfillment, prophets are the index finger which points sin and gives direction, evangelists are the middle finger who will be able to extend the kingdom farther in to the world where others cannot reach, pastors are the ring finger who keep the Church wedded to Christ and teachers are the small finger who give a structured support to establish the saints in Gods purpose. The hand of God will be effective when all the fivefold ministry work together in unity of purpose and design. Or else no matter what, it will be a paralysed hand. These chosen men are called as gifted ministers because as the Scripture says they are gifts given by Jesus to men Eph 4 8 when He ascended to heaven after his resurrection. These gifts of Jesus to the Church are also called as office because it is a position pre ordained by Jesus and carries authority over the people of God spiritually to guide them to growth. Office in the Greek means episkopen which means position of overseer. All the five gift of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher are all overseer position of spiritual authority of Jesus over His people. Within the Body of Christ which is the Church, these men operate and supply the grace of God to people according to the measure of Christs gift Eph 4 7 1 Cor 1. So the best gift for each men in the Body of Christ is that which the Lord has given to them individually to operate 1 Cor 1. God has placed the gift by calling in each person and has also given the desire to operate it to satisfaction Php 2 1. So when one person desires to operate in another persons gift, they will not excel, be blessed or satisfied in it. Apostles Governs. The most prominent apostle apart from the twelve apostles Jesus chose was apostle Paul Luke 6 1. There are some three main divisions in this apostle realm which we must remember. Firstly, it is the foundational apostles who wrote the Scripture by inspiration in the first century and the Canon was closed forever with the final book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ written around 9. AD, which was the final book of Scripture written before the death of the last Apostle John in 1. AD. These apostles lived no more after the first century and there can be no other apostle of this type. Secondly, there were the twelve apostles chosen by the Lord and sent out in apostolic mission of whom Judas Iscariot became the betrayer of Jesus later and Matthias replaced him by the Lords sovereign choice through casting lots Luke 6 1. Acts 1 2. 3 2. 6 Prov 1. These twelve are unique in their calling that will be given to no other person because these twelve have been chosen to symbolically become the twelve foundations of the wall of the holy city of New Jerusalem, on these twelve foundations their twelve names will be written on it Rev 2. Thirdly, the apostles who were given to the Church as a gift by the Lord Jesus himself Eph 4 1. These apostles were there in the first century and has continued to operate in their calling and gift for these last two thousand years. No where in the New Testament is there any slightest hint of these apostles of the Church ceasing to exist or being told that these people will be there only for the first century Church and then no more. Because of the Babylonic spirit invading the Church through Roman Catholicism, the voice of the apostles have ceased to exist because of severe persecution to all these mighty men of God, many of whom became martyrs for the sake of proclaiming the truth of Jesus Christ. When this religious Babylon will fall during the first half of the week of Daniel Rev 1. God says to the apostles and prophets of the Church in heaven and earth to rejoice over the demise of this religious Harlot Babylon forever Rev 1. God has restored all the lost gifts of the Church completely in the 2. Now in the 2. 1st century, it is the time for the Church to rise up and shine forth the light of the gospel of Jesus to the whole world Matt 5 1. Apostle is derived from Classical Greek word apostolos, meaning one who is sent away, a messenger or ambassador. So christian apostles are messengers sent forth by Jesus specifically to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom of God. Apostle Paul was specifically called by Jesus to preach Jesus among the Gentile world Gal 1 1, 1. God chooses and sends specific men from His Church as messengers with a specific message to reach specific people groups Gal 2 8 9. They will be able to exercise a divine authority over the sphere of influence which God has appointed for them to do ministry 2 Cor 1.