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The Canmore Accord
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In my personal experience the ministry gifts that I have seen lacking in the church today are: the Apostle, Prophet and Evangelist. Its not difficult to find people that call themselves by the titles but the actual fulfillment of the function of the gifts have been few and far between. A lot of the lack, I believe is attributed to the lack of teaching and discipleship in these gifts. I say all of this only being baptized in the Holy Spirit less than a decade ago, and up until then, being mostly involved in religion. Though, even in my short time of exposure to the full gospel, i would say that these three gifts seem to be less emphasized, accepted and cultivated in church bodies.
Again, ill say that i Had not received any scriptural teaching about these gifts up until 8 or 9 years ago. Mostly personal inclining’s. I am so happy to have scripture and people who believe it in its fullness to run with.
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- I think all of them are lacking in our church. Apostolic- bring governance , and lots getting competitions. How many churches have no Pastors . We needs prophetic ministry to churches to bring guidance, declaring prophecy to the church. Evangelist, we need Christian’s who have courage to share the love of Jesus. Teaches to teach believers and deepened thier faith.
The Canmore accord is a great teaching. I’ve learned the five fold ministry but this explain more deeper.
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The five ministry gifts are apostle, prophet, teacher, pastor and evangelist. I don’t think I know the church movement well enough to know which one might be lacking. Perhaps all of them are lacking. I am so excited that ACOP recognizes these ministry gifts and honours them. This is a good teaching. I like the exhortation for all the gifts to work together.
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- I think that the ministry gift that is most lacking in the church today is the gift of prophetic ministry. I think this may be because there was skepticism in the church for a while regarding these gifts and so people that were gifted in this area may have felt pushed away by church leaders and not able to share this gift with the church. The Canmore Accord addresses this lack by affirming this ministry gift and sharing how prophetic ministry brings guidance to churches and is an important part of the local church.
- I have received different teachings about the fivefold ministry in scripture because of growing up in different denominations of churches. I have heard that prophetic ministry is something of the past and not something that is still a part of churches today. Further questions I have about this subject would be questions regarding how best to steward your ministry gifts to help serve the local church.
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