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Different Kinds of Fathers

How spiritual fathers and mothers
are trained from the ground up

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y this chapter, we see that spiritual families are best developed in
settings where a powerful flow of ministry can occur as fathers
pass on their spiritual impartation to their sons. These family settings or small "cells,” initially foster relationships that can be grown naturally and powerfully because people realize they are ministers and can be grown into spiritual fathers or mothers as they carry out the work of ministry. My two decades of experience with small group ministry has convinced me that each member must learn how to pass on a spiritual impartation so that a legacy of spiritual families can continue.

If we do not develop believers in this way, we are failing to provide for a future and will lose our children. In his book You Have Not Many Fathers, Dr. Mark Hanby explains what happens all too frequently when the church refuses to recognize that the flow of power in the kingdom of God is through relationship with one another:

Without the spiritual relationship of father to son, there can never be the passing of double portions or a true basis of spiritual authority and identity...The flow of all power in the kingdom of God is through relationship with one another. The amputation of relationship has left the church handicapped in power. The disjointed connection in the order of God's people has made some members lame and withered in spiritual atrophy. Other members have become exhausted, overburdened with an unbalanced share of kingdom responsibility and care. To manifest a complete Christ to the whole world, spiritual connections must be restored and the balance of power shared by each member.1

I agree wholeheartedly!I believe the "balance of power can be shared” as spiritual impartations are passed on practically and easily from fathers to sons as they are trained in the spiritual "boot camp” of small groups. Many times these spiritual fathers and mothers move on to further leadership in the church. The easiest way to explain how a spiritual impartation is passed on is to give you a working example from our cell-based church.

Trained from the ground up

I had the privilege of serving as the pastor of a cell-based church in Pennsylvania for many years. By cell-based, I mean, everyone committed to the church is committed to other believers in a cell group, along with the cell leader. The cell leaders look to the leadership of their church as spiritual parents who give them guidance and provide vision for the whole church. We use the term cell group because of cells in our body that grow and eventually go through the process of mitosis, where one cell becomes two, two become four, and the process of multiplication continues. This process of cell multiplication was modeled in the book of Acts as the New Testament church met in homes in every city (Acts 20:20).

It all started in the late 1970's, when LaVerne and I found ourselves becoming spiritual parents to a group of young Christians, and we started a cell group in our home. By 1980, we had multiplied into two cell groups in two different homes. In October 1980, there were three cell groups and we started a new church, a Sunday morning "celebration” of about 25 people. By the grace of God, these cell groups continued to grow as people throughout our community came to Christ and many joined a spiritual family (cell) and our new church. Ten years later, in 1990, there were more than 2,300 people committed to our church in more than 125 cell groups. Churches were planted in Scotland, Brazil, and Kenya. (If you desire to read more about our story, you will find it in a book I wrote about our church's adventure in cell groups entitled House to House).2

In the process of our church growing and multiplying, hundreds of spiritual fathers and mothers were released as ministers to God's people through the cell groups. Here is one "boot camp” story of Carl Good's initial training and then imparting and passing on an inheritance as a spiritual father.

Carl was in his early 50's when he and his wife, Doris, from the small town of Manheim, Pennsylvania, started attending our church and participating in its cell ministry. An unassuming, quiet member of his cell group, Carl worked at a feed manufacturing plant. Doris was a buying agent for a local firm.

Cell leader. After a time, Carl and Doris' willingness to serve and be committed to relationships with people in their cell group caught the attention of their cell leaders. They were asked to consider leading a cell. With fear and trembling, they agreed to this new venture and completed our church's cell leader training course. After a few months as assistant cell leaders, Carl and Doris assumed leadership responsibility for their cell. They were not flashy, but they loved people, and their living room soon filled to capacity. They were a "do what you can, with what you have, where you are” kind of couple. People were naturally drawn to them because they were authentic. In time, they mentored assistant leaders in the group, raising up enough leaders to start another cell. Before long, they had launched two more cells, then three and four. Over the next few years, their cells continually grew and multiplied.

Local pastor. Meanwhile our church family was rapidly expanding, and we needed to add more support pastors to our staff who could "father” the cell leaders. As we prayed and looked for spiritual fathers among the cells, our eyes fell on Carl, a true pastor. He already was fathering the cell leaders. He had been trained in the seminary and boot camp ofthe cell group. Carl joined our paid staff and continued to be a "father” to the cell leaders in the greater Manheim area.

A few years later, the Lord called our church family to decentralize and plant eight autonomous new cell churches in our region, all at the same time. Who became the Senior Pastor (we use the term senior elder) of the new church in Manheim? You guessed it--Carl. Under Carl's leadership, this new Manheim cell church soon started a new cell group in the nation of Scotland. A Scottish couple, Duncan and Kath, attending our cell-based Church Planting and Leadership School, joined a cell in the Manheim church. They returned to Scotland to plant a new cell, and it grew and multiplied to evolve into a new cell church. Duncan looked across the ocean to Carl as a spiritual father. The cell church in Manheim continued to start cells all over the community. They also planted two other new cell churches in Pennsylvania.

Apostolic leader. Carl received much of his church leadership training in the local church, starting in his first cell group. His story was amazing to watch. Eventually, Carl turned the leadership of this church over to one of his capable elders whom he had trained.

For several years, until his death in 2005, he served on the DOVE Christian Fellowship International "Apostolic Council,” which oversees leaders of more than 130 churches scattered across five continents. Church leaders throughout our nation and the world looked to Carl as their spiritual father. A leader in the body of Christ from another part of the United States told me, "I had been looking for a spiritual father all of my Christian life, and God answered my prayers. Carl became a father to me.”

Carl had worked in a feed manufacturing plant when the Lord called him to learn how to be a spiritual father. The Lord used Carl's experience of cell leader servanthood to prepare him for future service in His kingdom. Carl did not aspire to pastor a church, much less to pastor other pastors. He just loved Jesus and wanted to serve in a supportive role in the local church. But God had other plans--divine plans.

Carl was trained in the small group and moved on through the various kinds of spiritual fatherhood. First, he became a grassroots spiritual father who fathered new believers in Christ through the cell groups meeting from house to house (Romans 16:3-11).

Later, after multiplying his cell group various times, he became a pastor who focused his time on fathering cell group leaders meeting from city to city (Titus 1:5). He had now become a type of spiritual grandfather or church leader.

Still later, Carl became the "apostolic father.” He began to oversee and father leaders (pastors) of churches just as Paul, Barnabas, Aquila, Priscilla, Titus, Timothy and many more did in the early church. He entered the role of a spiritual great-grandfather!

We are all called to spiritual parenting

I should clarify that Carl's story is unique to Carl. Not everyone trained in the small group will become an apostolic father, a local pastor, or even a small group leader. But since every believer has a commission to lead new Christians into saving faith, we are all called to be spiritual fathers and mothers, whether we "birth” them to Christ or take them under our wing to mentor them.

Some small group leaders will remain small group leaders and impart their legacy within their group by training more small group leaders, because this is their call from God. They still become spiritual fathers and grandfathers because eventually, those whom they father in the Lord will become spiritual fathers to another generation. The lineage goes on and on.

Perhaps some of these small group leaders will develop into a pastor of a local church or an apostolic leader, but not all. We need to follow God's call on our lives, and not be pushed into a role of leadership that does not fit us! David tried on Saul's armor, but it did not fit. We cannot wear someone else's "armor.”

Just remember, whether in an actual leadership level or not, every believer is called to some kind of spiritual parenting. In addition, we are all called to be fathered by those over us in the Lord who will bring loving training and protection to us. These relationships must be built by the Lord Himself, through His Holy Spirit.

Grassroots fathers--God's call for all of us!

The New Testament church was a grassroots movement meeting from house to house where ordinary people led others to Christ, lovingly fathered these new believers in Paul-Timothy-type relationships, and opened up their homes, generously serving each other. They shared their friendship with Jesus--extending His grace and forgiveness to the world. In these small group settings, they built loving relationships with one another and learned from the ground up how to become fathers. I like to call the kind of spiritual fathers and mothers trained in this setting grassroots fathers.

When our church started, we were a fledgling cell-based movement that started to grow by developing grassroots fathers. In the late 1970's, the Lord spoke to me asking if I would be willing to "be involved in the underground church.” At the time, I knew little about cell groups and how the family-type relationships built there could impact our lives. But I got a picture of an underground church in the form of a tree: its trunk, branches and leaves are only half of the picture. The unnoticed half, the underground root system, nourishes the whole tree and keeps it healthy. The underground church is the believers gathered together in small groups to pray, evangelize and build healthy relationships with each other. These mutually accountable father-son, mother-daughter relationships are a vital connection for each member to experience spiritual growth, encouragement and reproduction.

We encouraged the believers at our church that each one could develop into a spiritual father or mother at the grassroots level. A grassroots father was a believer who was involved in discipling new believers, and in some cases, was also a cell leader or assistant leaderin a small group setting, who was called to spiritually father or mother others within the small group. Carl started out this way, first as a grassroots father who received valuable training in the small group. Thousands of churches all over the world are returning to the biblical pattern of encouraging small group meetings in homes within the congregation. These cell group leaders and assistant leaders see their group members as a spiritual family who are in need of nurturing and training to become spiritual fathers. Grassroots parents give basic training to their small group. Cell ministry without the dynamic of spiritual fathering and mothering will quickly become a dead church program.

Local church fathers

Our church grew rapidly with grassroots parents reproducing themselves over and over again. We needed another kind of spiritual father to accommodate the swell. We began to develop the next level of spiritual fathers--pastors and elders. Carl moved on to this aspect of spiritual fatherhood because God entrusted him with the responsibility to oversee not only one or two spiritual families (cells) at a time, but a whole team of spiritual fathers and mothers (cell group leaders) in the church. Now he was a pastor-father of a congregation consisting of many cells.

This new branch of spiritual fathering and mothering released us to become eight congregations in Pennsylvania and three in other nations. We viewed the leadership (eldership) of these eleven congregations as "local church fathers.” They regarded their church not as a meeting, but as a family of believers meeting in cell groups. They were called to oversee the many spiritual families (cell groups) and cell leaders within their church.

A local church pastor has the heart of a shepherd to care for the cell leaders, who in turn care for his sheep, the congregation. When I served as a senior pastor, I often told our team of pastors, "You should not be in your office all day: you should be out spiritually parenting small group leaders.”

A pastor should meet with the small group leaders on their turf. On occasion, when I served as a pastor, I had three breakfasts in one morning as I met individually with three cell leaders in a restaurant close to where they all lived.One time, I hopped on a cell leader's tractor and spent time with him as he plowed his field! Spending time parenting small group leaders in the church like this raises future spiritual fathers.

Some of these future spiritual fathers will eventually desire their own families. They will become church planters beginning a whole new branch of the family, a new church,that will meet the needs of the new generation coming into the kingdom of God. A pastor who has the heart of a father is more concerned about the welfare of his spiritual sons and daughters than his own personal vision for his congregation.

Carl Jenks is a father-leader like this. When I spoke at Carl's church in North Chili, New York, I witnessed an amazing phenomenon. The church is in the midst of raising funds to build a 1,200-seat auditorium but they recently sent out two new church planters and teams to start new churches. They could send out these teams because two men in the congregation had a call from God to plant new churches within their home communities. Carl Jenks is an example of the new generation of fathers God is developing among us who will not hold back their spiritual children to fulfill their own vision. In the midst of raising money required for a building project, new leaders have been sent out with a blessing to start new churches.

Apostolic fathers

When our church was fifteen years old, we had grown to a point that we knew we had to move to another branch of spiritual fathering to accomplish what God had called us to do. The vision the Lord had given us, "to build a relationship with Jesus, with one another, and reach the world from house to house, city to city, and nation to nation” could not be fulfilled under our current church structure. So we gave our church away!

We had always preached about empowering and releasing individual believers to their full potential, and now we gave that freedom to each of the congregations of our "mega-church” in rural Pennsylvania. We were convinced the Lord was asking us to release each congregation, giving them the option of joining the DOVE Christian Fellowship International family of churches and ministries or connecting to another part of the body of Christ. The eight congregations and most of the overseas church plants expressed a desire to stay together and partner with the DCFI family of churches worldwide.

Our transition as a church required us to form an apostolic council to give spiritual oversight to the leadership of all of the self-governing congregations. This team birthed a new category of spiritual fathering in the church--apostolic fathers. The spiritual fathers who serve on our Apostolic Council give spiritual oversight, protection, and serve as an outside court of appeal to the senior leader and to the leadership teams of our local churches.

C. Peter Wagner, in his book The New Apostolic Churches, calls this apostolic movement with apostolic fathers, "The New Apostolic Reformation.” He says this new work of God is "changing the shape of Protestant Christianity around the world...traditional Christianity starts with the present situation and focuses on the past. New apostolic Christianity starts with the present situation and focuses on the future.”3 These new apostolic leaders are dedicated to releasing the people of their congregations to do the ministry of the church.

Like any healthy, natural father who relates to his married child, apostolic fathers influence rather than control. These seasoned apostolic fathers mentor and coach pastors of local churches, and they do so by developing supportive relationships with local church elders. The relationship is a God-ordained relationship, not built through denominational structure. More than twenty apostolic fathers are mentioned in the New Testament; Paul, Barnabas, Silas, James, Timothy and many others had responsibility before the Lord to serve the leadership of the early church. Paul's letters are an example of New Testament apostolic spiritual fathering.

I am especially sensitive to this kind of spiritual fathering because during the majority of the years while I was pastoring a church, I did not have anyone to father me. I paid dearly for this. The Lord, however, is always redemptive. He has used the lack that I experienced to cause me to be sensitive to Him to train apostolic fathers who will help to parent this next generation of church leadership.

There are many lonely leaders today--pastors and pastors' wives of both independent churches and denominational churches--who are looking for apostolic spiritual fathers and mothers. The Lord is hearing their cries, and raising up many apostolic fathers in our day who have a call and passion to serve these fatherless ministers in local churches. These ministers need a more mature minister to sit with them regularly, to listen to them, to cry with them, and to coach them. Apostolic fathers will encourage them to press into the Lord and to trust His Word. Many pastors have had a hard time fathering future leaders in their churches, because they themselves have never been fathered. The only models of spiritual leadership they have seen are those who lead by hands-on management and control from the top.

The Lord is placing the lonely in families

Churches that have embarked on cell ministry without understanding and living out spiritual fathering have only started another religious cell group program.The church is built through our Lord Jesus Christ by God-ordained relationships.

In Psalms 68:6 the Lord tells us he is placing "the lonely in families” (NIV). The Lord is restoring spiritual parenting to His church today to meet the needs of lonely new believers, lonely church members, lonely small group leaders, and lonely pastors. Recently, I was in Bulgaria and a pastor told me as we drove to the airport, "The loneliness I have had in my heart for years is gone. The Lord has provided spiritual fathers for me.”

An apostolic father will have a heart to help bring into completion (not compete with) the ministry the Lord is building in a local church. He will be an equipper and encourager who comes alongside the pastor to see the pastor's vision fulfilled. As a representative of Jesus Christ, he comes with a servant's heart and has a desire to see his son far exceed him in ministry.

While I was in South Africa speaking at a conference, I was approached by a gentleman who asked me if I knew much about apostles and apostolic ministry. He was not clear about apostolic ministry in the church today and simply wanted my opinion. "In the last few years,” he said,"along with a team of friends, we started 90 churches. We look after these churches and maintain a relationship with the leaders. Is that apostolic ministry?” I assured him it was! These churches were built by relationship, where the apostolic fathers gave loving oversight to those who were pastoring each of the 90 churches. This young Christian leader saw these churches as a cluster of spiritual families, and he was in a place to help them grow healthy and strong.

Each congregation, denomination, movement, and "stream” within the body of Christ is very important to the Lord. We are all needed and should strive to work together because we are the family of God. However, regardless of what you may want to call them in your denomination or movement, pastors and leaders throughout the body of Christ are crying out for apostolic fathers. Denominations that begin to implement the truth of spiritual fathering within their denominations will find a fresh wind of the Spirit blowing across their denomination. However, this must be built by relationship, not by bureaucratic hierarchy.

One of the reasons for the lack of apostolic fathers in the body of Christ has been a lack of financial support. In the same way that believers in local churches give tithes to support their local leadership, many churches throughout the world are giving tithes to support the team of apostolic fathers who serve them.

Fathers of regions

The Lord is doing an awesome thing in our day. He is restoring the unity He prayed for in John 17:21: "That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.” Walls that have divided denominations and churches for centuries are coming down throughout the world at an intense rate. Pastors in the same town who never knew one another are now finding each other, praying together regularly, and supporting each other. This kind ofchurch unity is exciting!

Over the next years, there will be an emergence of spiritual leaders from various backgrounds and denominations who will form teams of spiritual leadership who serve various cities andregions of the world. There will be apostolic fathers serving towns, cities, and regions. They will no longer only think in terms of pastoring their own church, but will think and pray in terms of sensing a responsibility with other fellow servant leaders throughout the body of Christ to pastor their region. This will not compete with their denominations, but will bring wholeness. Although these "fathers of the region” will be concerned about unity, it will not be their main focus. Their main focus will be on the Lord and on His mandate to reach the lost as the Lord brings in His harvest.

When LaVerne and I were married in 1971, we found we had two sets of relationships to pursue and maintain: those on her side of the family and those on mine. Both were important. Every denomination and church movement has a redemptive purpose from the Lord that a region needs.We need to maintain healthy relationships with the apostolic fathers of our church movement, and we also need to keep healthy relationships with the spiritual fathers of our region. When Ford Corporation runs a car through the assembly line at Detroit, parts have been gathered from companies from all over the world. These parts are assembled at Detroit. God has brought denominations and church families from all over the world to your town or city, as He assembles His church in your city. Each church and ministry should be honored. As we walk together in unity in our region, the Lord will command a blessing.

Unity among pastors and church leaders in the same region constantly surfaces as one of the most important prerequisites for revival to come to any town or city. Apostolic fathers serving towns, cities, and regions set the stage for unity that brings revival. There are apostolic fathers who serve in leadership over movements, and apostolic leaders who serve in leadership over regions. Some apostolic leaders serve in both areas of leadership. These fathers are not self-appointed, but are recognized by the leadership of the church and ministries in the region they represent.

The fivefold fathers

Calvin Greiner, a prophetic teacher from Manheim, Pennsylvania, after serving for a season as a senior pastor, now ministers in churches of many denominations as a trans-local fivefold minister.

God is raising modern-day fivefold ministers, like Calvin, in His church today: "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11-12).

The origins of the fivefold ministry gifts are from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the:

•Apostle of apostles, "As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21b).In the Greek, an ambassador of the gospel who is sent out is called apostolos.

•Prophet of prophets, "His disciples did not understand these things at first...” (John 12:16). As a prophet, Jesus explained what they didn't understand.

•Evangelist of evangelists, "I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

•Teacher of teachers, "You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am” (John 13:13).

•Pastor of pastors, "I am the good shepherd” (John 10:11a).

Calvin has tapped into the potential of spiritual fathering that is desperately missing in the body of Christ. Every week, he trains potential fivefold ministers how to teach God's Word. He is what I call a "fivefold father.” He knows that if he trains a few young teachers and prophets who, in turn, train others, the reproduction potential is staggering.

Fivefold spiritual fathers and mothers train the next generation in their specific gifts and calling. As apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, they speak with the Lord's authority because they represent one of the ministry gifts of Jesus Christ. The Lord validates them by the evidence of spiritual fruit, changed lives and signs following their ministry such as miracles. They are recognized by local church leadership and released into ministry.

Apostolic fathers train younger apostolic ministers, prophetic fathers train younger prophets in prophetic ministry and so on, so that the body of Christ is equipped, encouraged and comes to maturity. The Lord sent these fivefold parents (representing specific gifts) to us that we might be complete, lacking nothing. Their goal as fivefold ministers is to train, equip and prepare the Lord's body to be functional in everyday life as ministers of the gospel of Christ. They mentor future leadership after their own kind and help them avoid many of the pitfalls of past generations. They train their spiritual sons and daughters to minister with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.

Importance of spiritual gifts in ministry

Not every believer will operate as a fivefold father in the ministry of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher. However, each believer can minister with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit in the gifts of the Spirit according to I Corinthians 12:7-11 (word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healings, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues).Dennis DeGrasse, in his book The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, reminds us of the importance of these spiritual gifts in today's church:

Sadly, some modern-day saints believe the gifts of the Spirit were for the "good old days” of early church Christianity and not for today's Christian. They claim the early Christians needed His supernatural power for the overwhelming task they faced as a fledgling movement, and when they no longer needed the gifts to illuminate and magnify the proclamation of the gospel, the gifts ceased.

In studying church history, however, there are many evidences of the manifestations of the gifts of the Spirit down through the ages. Although at dark times in church history, they may have been rare, the gifts never ceased. If the supernatural gifts of the Spirit were not highly visible in the church throughout the ages, it was not because God removed them from the scene or believers no longer needed them. Their rarity simply represented failure on the part of God's people.

Believers often reclaim the New Testament dynamics of moving in the gifts during times of renewal in church history. This brings new life to the church...I believe today's church is once again hungry for His supernatural power in order to live victoriously. We need the gifts today more than ever before because we need His power!

Paul told the saints at Corinth to pay attention to the gifts of the Spirit: "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant” (I Corinthians 12:1). We cannot afford to ignore or be ignorant of these important gifts because we desperately need them in order to function effectively for Christ.

Another time, Paul encourages the church to "earnestly desire spiritual gifts” (I Corinthians 14:1). God made sure that they were recorded in His Word for our benefit. They are not just an interesting historical fact, but are available for us today.

The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit cannot be earned--they are freely given by God to His children. They are not the result of personal righteousness or come from exercising strenuous spiritual discipline. They are given freely at the sovereign will of God. The purpose of the nine gifts is for ministry to others. As members of the body of Christ, we should expect God to manifest His gifts through us to a person in need.4

Spiritual gifts are like dynamite, they are powerful for good or can be twisted and misunderstood by the enemy for evil. The fivefold fathers are being raised up by the Lord in our day to prepare mature fivefold ministers operating in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I believe they will follow the pattern of John Wesley's circuit riders who traveled on horseback from house to house andfrom congregation to congregation to minister to God's people, training them for His service.

Restoring both the power and fruit of the Spirit

We need all of these various kinds of spiritual parenting in each area of church life in these critical last days as the Lord restores the truth of Malachi 4:6. There must be a balance of both the power and fruit of the Spirit to accomplish it.

Much of the impartation for both the power and the fruit of the Spirit comes through personal spiritual parenting. Rick Joyner recently wrote this prophetic word about the church:

"Often those who know the power of the Spirit do not display much of the fruit of the Spirit, and those who have the fruit of the Spirit do not know the power of the Spirit. That will change in a great way...Those with the fruit of the Spirit will start walking in power, and those with the power will start having the fruit of the Spirit. God is the Almighty, but He is also love, and for the church to be a true reflection of Him, we must manifest both His power and His love. As these two are joined, great advances for the gospel will be ignited.”5

Spiritual fathering is a part of the Lord's plan to restore both the power of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit to His church. Fruit must be cultivated to grow. Let's humble ourselves and learn to look to others who have cultivated the soil of our lives as they parented us, so we can bring forth fruit that will remain for the next generation of leadership.

God has divine plans for our lives. I was a chicken farmer when the Lord called LaVerne and me to serve as spiritual parents to new believers. He was training us in the basics of spiritual fathering and mothering. We had no idea then as to where the Lord was taking us.

Our God is no respecter of persons. Some of us are housewives, others are high-school students, others run corporations or work in law firms, factories, or department stores. The call is the same. He is calling you and me to become spiritual parents. And, as you'll see in the next chapter, we have distinct fields in which to work.

Notes

1 Dr. Mark Hanby, You Have Not Many Fathers, (Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., 1996), p. 174.

2 Larry Kreider, House to House, (Ephrata, Pennsylvania: House to House Publications, 1995).

3C. Peter Wagner, The New Apostolic Churches, (Ventura, California: Regal Books, 1998), pp. 18, 20.

4 Dennis DeGrasse, The Gifts of the Holy Spirit, (Ephrata, Pennsylvania: House to House Publications, 1999), pp. 10-11.

5Rick Joyner, Prophetic Bulletin, January 1999, (Charlotte, North Carolina: Morning Star Publications), p.1.

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