We are looking at Transformational Disciples. And we have seen that there are three types: Adaptive, Breakthrough, and Apostolic. Last time we looked at the first two and today we will briefly look at the Apostolic type of the Transformational Disciple that Jesus is raising up.

Apostolic Transformational Disciples take the Kingdom and movement mentality (planting churches so as to see a major harvest of souls and a new move of the Gospel into places that are spiritually dark) to its zenith by starting several multiple sites throughout their city to reach more people than one site can reach; cutting themselves loose to function more as the mentor of others who do the ministry; and developing discipleship schools and church planting centers within the local church.

Apostolic types exhibit passion for the fulfillment of the Great Commission and participation in the expansion of God’s Kingdom. They are seldom, if ever, concerned about religious issues or denominational concerns or issues. Apostolic Transformational Disciples have the following common characteristics:

·         Their passion for the Kingdom causes them to begin exercising influence over more than just one church or area.

·         Methodology is relatively unimportant compared to one driving passion – does it transform people and community?

·         They have radically decentralized everything in order to facilitate the exponential exploration of new and better ways to expand the Kingdom.

·         Rather than developing programs to involve people, these Apostolic Transformational Disciples focus on intensive, on-the-job modeling of everyone in their group.

·         Mission dictates their partnerships

The statement that best defines their ministry is: “My passion in life is to oversee a Kingdom movment that will result in the multiplication of churches to the point that the Great Commission is fulfilled on my lifetime.”

This group is the smallest of all effective Transformational Disciples and virtually none of them fall within the mainline denominational camp – This category, however, will be the fastest growing group of the three we have been discussing.