The coming of the Holy Spirit is not only to empower individual Christians but to help establish and extend the kingdom of God. We each need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to know God’s authority and we also need to recognise the ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers who are given by God to build up the body of Christ. Spiritual government is established through godly teams in the church of Christ, locally and globally.
Jesus had different types of teams (Luke 10:1) but his core prototype team was a team of 12. And this is more significant in the Bible than we may imagine. In the New Testament the 12 disciples became the 12 apostles to establish Christ’s church. That’s why so much of the ministry of Jesus was focussed on recruiting and training the 12.
Now let’s see how we can apply this – and can you remember the names of Jesus’ 12 disciples??
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