So, You’d Like to be an Evangelist?

So, You’d Like to be an Evangelist?

Itinerant ministries such as evangelists are not vagrants, they do have a home address. The Apostle Paul’s home church was in the coastal city of Antioch. Evangelists need a home church because their credibility is linked with accountability. After returning from...
Experiences with Prophets

Experiences with Prophets

Years ago, Lorraine and I stood with a group of mainly German Christians in a certain place in a Polish lakeside city on the border of Ukraine. We were not told who or what we were waiting for, but after an hour or so the decision was made for the group to move on....
Who Came Down?

Who Came Down?

“You are from beneath: I am from above; you are of this world; I am not of this world.” John 8:23) Jesus said this to the angry Pharisees; however, referring to his disciples, he said: “They are not of this world, just as I am not of this...
Ministry Dynamics

Ministry Dynamics

I don’t know why it is that you can be ministering along a line of people with no apparent result or perceptible release of God’s power — when suddenly it’s there and someone is healed or baptized in the Holy Spirit. Thereafter that same power...
The Whole Truth and Nothing But

The Whole Truth and Nothing But

How would you feel if you were given a gift of one shoe: a quality piece of footwear, highly polished and comfortable, but only good for one foot? Half a bible verse is like that. For example, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”...
Left Behind in the Christian Life

Left Behind in the Christian Life

God’s ministers have progressed from asking God to heal the sick to them healing the sick in the name of Jesus; from passivity to activity; from prepared sermons to prophetic preaching; from rehearsed liturgy to spontaneous expression; from acquired knowledge to...

Peter E. Barfoot