This is That

I. My Adventure  1983 – call to ministry/Pastor  1986 – started PFC  1996 – Word from the Lord - More fully embrace your gift to pastor  Early 2000’s - Word from the Lord – let me be your transportation director  2001 – started Restoration Christian Church in Park Rapids  1983 – call to ministry/Pastor  1986 – started PFC  1996 – Word from the Lord - More fully embrace your gift to pastor  Early 2000’s - Word from the Lord – let me be your transportation director  2001 – started Restoration Christian Church in Park Rapids

 October 18, 2006 – Word from the Lord “It is your time to rise up and move into the office I have elected you to serve in, and it is more apostolic than you are willing to admit. Yes pastor, and yes teacher. You have easily embraced these things. But more apostolic, and I will lead you into understanding of what that means.”

II. Revelation of Prophetic Words  Acts 2:16 "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;” ●Disciples experienced the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel ●Greatest revelation comes with the fulfillment of the prophetic word  Acts 2:16 "But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;” ●Disciples experienced the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel ●Greatest revelation comes with the fulfillment of the prophetic word

 Apostolic Ministry from a Biblical perspective ●Apostle – sent one ●Take the gospel to unreached areas ●Laying a firm foundation for the churches being established and giving spiritual guidance and oversight ●Training leaders ●Dealing with specific problems, false doctrine and sins in the church ●Promoting unity in the body of Christ ●Demonstrating and imparting the supernatural dimension of the kingdom of God  Apostolic Ministry from a Biblical perspective ●Apostle – sent one ●Take the gospel to unreached areas ●Laying a firm foundation for the churches being established and giving spiritual guidance and oversight ●Training leaders ●Dealing with specific problems, false doctrine and sins in the church ●Promoting unity in the body of Christ ●Demonstrating and imparting the supernatural dimension of the kingdom of God

 Each NT apostle was unique in how he carried out his apostolic role ●Peter - reaching out to the lost ●Paul - teaching and building believers together as a functional expression of the Body of Christ ●John - prophetic heart that God’s people would continually walk together in righteousness with the Lord and love each other ●James - an apostle, even though the focus of his ministry was more pastoral and localized in Jerusalem  Each NT apostle was unique in how he carried out his apostolic role ●Peter - reaching out to the lost ●Paul - teaching and building believers together as a functional expression of the Body of Christ ●John - prophetic heart that God’s people would continually walk together in righteousness with the Lord and love each other ●James - an apostle, even though the focus of his ministry was more pastoral and localized in Jerusalem

 My desires ●Ephesians 2:20-22 ▪His house – built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets ▪Becoming a holy temple for the Lord ▪A dwelling where God lives by his Spirit  My desires ●Ephesians 2:20-22 ▪His house – built on the foundations of the apostles and prophets ▪Becoming a holy temple for the Lord ▪A dwelling where God lives by his Spirit

●Colossians 1:25-29 ▪Serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you ▪Teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us ▪We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ ▪That’s why I work … depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me ●Colossians 1:25-29 ▪Serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you ▪Teaching everyone with all the wisdom God has given us ▪We want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ ▪That’s why I work … depending on Christ’s mighty power that works within me

III. Steamboat Willie  at+willie&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=Steamboat+ Willi# at+willie&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=Steamboat+ Willi#  at+willie&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=Steamboat+ Willi# at+willie&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=Steamboat+ Willi#

 Steamboat Willie – development of these things as a spiritual leader and as a church ●Ability to mobilize – sending people into their areas of ministry, even to other places as in missions or ministries ●Capacity for cargo – ability to assimilate people, ministers, ministries (not threatened by others rising) ●Supply of resources – for ministry to be done, (for music to be made) – for rescue (salvation) for those wanting to get on board  Steamboat Willie – development of these things as a spiritual leader and as a church ●Ability to mobilize – sending people into their areas of ministry, even to other places as in missions or ministries ●Capacity for cargo – ability to assimilate people, ministers, ministries (not threatened by others rising) ●Supply of resources – for ministry to be done, (for music to be made) – for rescue (salvation) for those wanting to get on board

 Piloted by: ●Jesus – good, redemptive, resilient, resourceful – VS. – ●The villain – the world, the flesh, the devil – opposing, putting down, hindering Jesus  Piloted by: ●Jesus – good, redemptive, resilient, resourceful – VS. – ●The villain – the world, the flesh, the devil – opposing, putting down, hindering Jesus

IV. School of Pastoral Nurture

 Consider God’s creative idea of you – his purpose for you, in his mind before you were ever born  Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.  Consider God’s creative idea of you – his purpose for you, in his mind before you were ever born  Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.