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Apostles and Prophets

24th Most Read Post – Interview With Rob Rufus

January 10, 2008

No. 24 on the list of the most widely read posts among readers of my blog appeared on July 13, 2007, and provided an audio link to my interview with Rob Rufus. Interviewing Rob at the end of the Together on a Mission 2007 Conference was memorable, and those who listened to the mp3 will [...]

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INTERVIEW – Rob Rufus: How apostles Work Today

December 15, 2007

Today I am publishing the fifth and final segment of my interview with Rob Rufus. The following links represent the posts which make up the first four parts of this interview: Preacher Rob Rufus Rob Rufus on Word and Spirit Rob Rufus on How To Explore the Charismatic Rob Rufus on apostles Today In the [...]

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INTERVIEW – Rob Rufus on apostles Today

December 12, 2007

In the previous segment of this interview with Rob Rufus, we finished by talking a bit about the network of churches of which he is a part. We ended with Rob speaking about a team of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors/ teachers. Today we begin by asking Rob what he means by “apostles.” For more [...]

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Mark Driscoll, Terry Virgo, and Shepherding God’s People

December 7, 2007

Regular readers of my blog will remember that, together with my pastor, Tope Koleoso, we had the joy of being able to chat with Mark Driscoll when we went to Edinburgh to hear him preach live. We were deeply impressed with his graciousness and kindness to us. In this, he reminded me of a man [...]

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INTERVIEW – Greg Haslam On The Primacy Of Preaching

October 18, 2007

Today I continue with part three of my interview with Greg Haslam. In part one, Greg told us a little about himself, and in part two he discussed his relationship to Newfrontiers and his move to Westminster Chapel. AdrianIf Westminster Chapel has stood for anything over the years it is surely the primacy of preaching. [...]

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TOAM07 – Seminar: Sam Poe and Guy Miller – Prophecy: The Battle for Team

July 13, 2007

Sam PoeSam serves on the Newfrontiers apostolic team in the USA. He and his wife, Marlene, have travelled widely, serving churches in the USA and other nations. In recent years they have been particularly involved in working together with a number of churches in Russia and the Ukraine. Sam and Marlene are presently based in [...]

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TOAM07 – Session 7: David Stroud on the Identity Markers of Newfrontiers

July 12, 2007

David StroudDavid Stroud leads ChristChurch, London, and the Newfrontiers UK team. He has been involved in leading churches for over fifteen years, and ChristChurch is the third church that he has planted. He is married to Philippa, who works as an adviser on issues of social justice in Westminster, and they have three children. See [...]

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Terry Virgo On Apostles Today

July 5, 2007

Over on Terry Virgo’s Blog, he has written a post entitled apostles today. This complements some of the interesting things he had to say on this subject in the recent interview here on my blog. If you haven’t read that interview yet, it can be found in the following posts: INTERVIEW — Terry Virgo: Leader [...]

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Terry Virgo Preaches on Ephesians 4

May 30, 2007

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Terry Virgo preached at the church I attend, and it blessed us so much — listening to him always seems to do that to me. It was great to be able download and listen to a sermon this evening entitled Becoming a Member of the Body, preached earlier [...]

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INTERVIEW – Wayne Grudem, Part Nine – Apostles, Theological Blind Spots, and Models of Church Government

December 17, 2006

This interview is being serialised over several days. So far I have published part one, which focused on personal issues, and part two, in which we discussed Systematic Theology. In part three, we explored Grudem’s charge that feminism inevitably leads to a denial of Scripture’s authority. Part four honed in on the “trajectory” arguments used [...]

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February 9, 2006

links for 2006-02-09 Apostles are meant for today …apostles love the church…. (tags: apostles charismatic theology church leadership ministry mission adrianw article)

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February 9, 2006

links for 2006-02-09 Apostles are meant for today …apostles love the church…. (tags: apostles charismatic theology church leadership ministry mission adrianw article)

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Is Mark Dever an Apostle?

February 9, 2006

I received another great e-mail question today: I became interested in your blog when I found it through Mark Dever’s 9 Marks website. I attended his church for a semester in college, and am friends with two of his former interns (James Santos and Paul Alexander). I’ll be going to the T4G conference in April. [...]

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Apostles are meant for today- Challies wheels out the big guns in the charismatic debate

December 8, 2005

Challies has brought in the big guns and is interviewing Dr Sam Waldron and Dr Wayne Grudem on the subject of cessationism/charismaticism. Today, Sam Waldron has an interesting argument which is essentially a cascade argument: The people we read in my doctoral program (and at the same time these people that would assume that cessationism [...]

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The Apostle Paul – disqualified from missionary service!

December 4, 2005

Boar’s Head Tavern: somments on the recent IMB controversy and quotes the Apostle Paul who said “‘I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.” before making the fantastic dissent demolishing point: “If your policy ends up barring one of the Apostles, you really ought to stop and think it over…”

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Fallible Prophecy?

November 16, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER has a helpful contribution to our debate on the charismatic view of prophecy. He explains Grudem’s view of NT prophecy and why he doesnt quite believe it. He concludes: “When we call something ‘prophecy’ that is really my own interpretation of some spontaneous impression we are giving a greater weight to that impression/interpretation than [...]

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Not taking the bait on apostles today

February 9, 2005

JOLLYBLOGGER didnt really take the bait, but it seems from the comments I am not the only person who believes that apostles today are as biblical as pastors or evanglists.

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Of course there are Apostles Today

February 6, 2005

Crossroads asks “Are there Apostles Today?” and answers her own question by saying “I absolutely believe there are apostles today. There is nothing in Scripture that denotes otherwise. If we accept the Ephesian 4:11 offices* for prophet, evangelist and pastor-teacher, then we must also accept apostle. To do otherwise is theologically dishonest.” I’m right with [...]

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More on apostles today

August 26, 2004

Woodside Church has a detailed explanation of what Ephesians 4 means for the way we should be doing church today.

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Doing church the way the apostles did

August 26, 2004

Terry Virgo of newfrontiers writes We certainly need what those early Christians seemed to have. Maybe we should try and do church the way they did it! Or is that asking too much? Maybe if we took God seriously, believed Him and obeyed Him and made space for the Holy Spirit, we might see something [...]

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