One ministry role spoken of in Ephesians 4 is the role of the evangelist. An evangelist is a person with a God-given gift for winning people to Jesus Christ. Evangelists tend to be able to engage in conversations with total strangers easily & they find natural in-roads to preaching the gospel.
A difficulty of an evangelist is that they are typically very mobile & lead people to the Lord, but are not as gifted at discipleship. Many people tell the evangelist that they should disciple the people they lead to the Lord, but actually an evangelist should partner with someone who is pastoral & have them oversee the discipleship aspect. An apostolic person has the tendency to see the evangelistic gifting on a person & see the need for a church to be established because of the new converts. Then, the apostolic person also sees who has a pastoral calling & plugs the new believers into discipleship groups led by a pastoral person. The evangelist should keep evangelizing & utilize team ministry for the discipleship process.
Although an evangelist's primary role is to evangelize, they should also call the body of Christ as a whole into the task of evangelism. An evangelist must exhort, train, & teach others in the body to evangelize--even those who are not gifted in that area. Also, they should equip & encourage the body to receive the new believers & disciple them.
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