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isn’t it beautiful how the Holy Spirit
we come in roaring like the lion
and then he shifts the atmosphere
it’s as gentle as a lamb
you know I’m
always teach our sons
about being lions and lamps
I grew up a lion
I took pride in being a lion
and when First Corinthians 16 13 14
really struck my soul be a man be strong
stand firm stand guard but in all you do
do and love
I became a lamb
I learned to be both
and I teach our sons that
and we need to teach our men that our
men need to know it’s okay
to be a lion and a lamb
and it’s exhibited in service
we come in
with worship and greetings and
Lions and the Holy Spirit says it’s good
I’m proud of you
it’s time for the lamb
so I want to pray for the lamb
father God thank you thank you
thank you we thank you we praise you
oh goodness we are so in love with you
the gift
the gift of your son father
Lord everything that we could think we
want to find under a tree anything that
we want ever in this life has already
been provided for us
through you
it’s just hours to declare
so we declare
goodness and peace and mercy and love
over this service over this message over
this word over this ordination father we
thank you I pray that with every word
spoken is only the words given to be
spoken by the Holy Spirit everything is
said in fear and reverence of the word
of the Lord in Jesus name amen
amen you know we have had a series we
call giving up
and it was on investing Kingdom
investment investing in the Kingdom with
our time and our talent and our treasure
and and today just the way the Holy
Spirit beautifully Works things out we
don’t plan these things on an annual
calendar and orchestrate them in a
manufactured way the Holy Spirit
absolutely runs the show
and today I want to talk about investing
in Kingdom growth from the inside out
but when we but when we make those
Investments of our time and our treasure
and our talent with the expectation of
always glorifying honoring the kingdom
God begins to multiply that God begins
to to grow that you know observing
communion is such a blessing it’s a
blessing to be led by an elder who truly
loves the observance of communion the
first time we did it this year so many
people were like you know I’ve always
just eaten a cracker and drank some
juice I didn’t know why we were doing it
but now I do
see doing things for the sake of doing
things doesn’t accomplish anything
it’s just busy it’s not productive it
doesn’t honor God being busy doesn’t
honor God
so I’m thankful for an elder
with a heart for observing communion for
heart for teaching he’s actually in the
five-fold he’s a he’s a teacher he’s in
the swim Lane how beautiful that is
also beautiful is that today we’re going
to get to experience our very first
ordination
and and I’ll be honest with you Lee and
I we’ve never done this
and that’s the beauty of doing it with
family that’s where it’s supposed to be
done it’s not supposed to be rehearsed
and manufactured and now if I told you I
didn’t Google a little bit I’d be lying
to you
I might have Googled a little bit but it
doesn’t diminish the reality that as a
body we’re going to get to experience an
ordination for our very first time and
you know why we get to experience an
ordination because we make Kingdom
Investments because we’ve been investing
in the body in the five-fold ministry
we’ve been equipping you guys
for the work of the ministry and as we
equip the body the Saints for the work
of ministry the ministry is going to
grow
we have to it’s the last thing Jesus
asked us to do in the Great Commission
so we’re going to get to do that and I
want to take a moment and share our our
vision our Apostolic Vision we share
with you guys our heart is not to grow a
big church
it’s to grow the individual person big
in their faith
in church Capital C Church let’s be very
clear in the body of Christ in that
Apostolic Vision it’s all rooted in
Ephesians 4 11 12.
and and it reads for 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 edifying of
the body of Christ this is what we’re
doing this is what five Stones Church
has been called to do we’ve not been
called to get a big event center and get
a bunch of people to come in and pay a
bunch of money so we can buy another big
event center we’ve been called as a
Battleground you know I always wondered
God why did you put me through 26 years
in a violent career in Special
Operations and undercover work and then
the Holy Spirit say well you kind of did
that on your own but I kept you safe and
when I look back I realized oh now I
understand why me because a lot of the
time I struggled with why me and I know
a lot of us struggling when God puts
that call in our life why me
because I called you I equipped you I
trained you so what do we get to do now
we get to come together in an Apostolic
Church under the five-fold ministry of
Ephesians 4 11 12 to grow each of you in
your swim Lane as teachers and Prophets
and evangelists and and pastors
excuse me and and um and
um apostles
that’s our goal and when we do that when
we grow the body and we equip the body
to make leaders in the Kingdom well then
our job is not to serve as a lid to your
spiritual elevation God’s calling you in
your different swim Lane in those
five-fold offices if you’ve been called
to be a pastor and you’re sitting like
well I’ve been called to be a pastor but
the pastor is a pastor and unless we can
work out some violent and maybe not
violent coup they’re going to stay the
pastor
God’s Got A Plan
it’s called church planning Church
growth where do we find that in the
Great Commission go out to all the
nations
and how do we do that not sitting in
this building
we do this by our Apostolic
responsibility is growing up the body to
go out and then support
so that’s a big part that’s why we’re
getting to to observe our first
ordination today is because it’s been an
equipping and encouraging and activating
and anointing and appointing and today’s
the public affirmation
so these members of the five-fold can go
and they can share the gospel
the other side the other part of our
Apostolic calling is sending is the
Great Commission we find it in Matthew
28 19 20.
go therefore and Make Disciples of all
Nations baptizing them in the name of
the father and of the son and of the
Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all
things that I’ve commanded you and lo I
Am With You Always even to the end of
the age
like we’re so we’re so as a traditional
Christian western church it’s like y’all
come y’all come
like y’all come to church on Sunday for
about an hour and a half
and that’s where it ends
an Apostolic Church says now y’all go
now go and I’m gonna give you a location
down on the body the way we say this
yoga
may not show y’all go
that’s not meaning that we don’t love
you and we’re not attached to you in the
body but what it does mean is that we
cannot fulfill the command of the Great
Commission if all we do is get together
for an hour an hour and a half on Sunday
that’s also the burden of an Apostolic
church it’s fun to build friendships
we’re going to be friends forever
if y’all just show up here for an hour
and a half on Sunday
but that’s a pastoral model
the apostolic model is to come in to
raise up and send out
third part of our of our vision is
supporting
this is the home church this is the
local church this is the the body of
Christ manifest in the local church but
that you’ve got to stay connected uh
Colossians 2 18 19 tells us
let no one cheat you of your reward
taking Delight in false humility and
worship of angels intruding into those
things which he has not seen vainly
puffed up by his fleshly mind and not
holding fast to the Head from whom all
the body nourished and knit together by
joints and ligaments grows with the
increase that is from God
too often nowhere in the in the New
Testament
is it legitimate for churches to be
anonymous I’m gonna go do my own thing
you need to be connected to the body of
Christ you need to be connected to the
body of Christ now we cool we cool it’s
not cool it’s not scriptural so when we
ordain this couple
and they begin their five Stones Church
in Tennessee they’re connected to the
home local church
that’s scriptural
so what is church planning you know in
today’s I’m just be honest when you say
church planting what comes to your mind
I’m another building
more rent more lease more expense more
Personnel more volunteers right that’s
what we think in the in the in the
Western Christian Church when we’re
talking about planting the church church
planting
but when your true five-fold Ministry
Apostolic church church planning is
planning Church Capital C which is the
body of Christ
we’re calling for couples who are Aquila
and Priscilla
to be the light to be Shepherds to the
Gathering of the body of Christ where
does where do you plan a church
wherever people gather
wherever people gather
you know that’s where we first met Nick
and Kirsten
was they were I called him our Sherpas
years ago they were doing they were I
said you’re a city block ahead of where
Lee and I are and we were in the weeds
and the muddle and the monk trying to
work our way through it and you guys
were like hey we’ve been there
we’re doing it your first century Church
book of Acts aquilas and priscillas and
that that Drew ours to you guys that
Drew our love to you guys because you
had a heart for doing Ministry the way
we did but we’d never been there before
so we needed you to Mentor us to guide
us and the way God works out is he
allowed you to guide us to that point
and now he’s flipped the script
and now he’s allowing us
to be there for you guys
so when we talk about church planting
I don’t want you to think of it as like
a Subway or or
Chick-fil-A which is which is Delicious
By the way uh it’s not a friend it’s not
a franchisee it’s not a franchising
business
it’s not the way God meant it to be it
is a gathering of the Saints it’s a
gathering of the body and every
Gathering has to have leadership has to
have Shepherds to lead in the guide
otherwise it’s just to get together it’s
no different than a secular Gathering
so we put the call out for our aquilas
and our priscillas
and Nick and Kirsten are our first
and our first plan the call Still
Remains as long as we’re an Apostolic
church and I believe as long as we are a
church the only reason that God asked
Lee and how to plant this church was to
be an Apostolic voice and a very
pastoral model world
where the World Church where the
Christian church in the west is
gathering bodies to build bigger
buildings
he’s called us to train people like
Special Forces Warriors to get out of
the chair and get into the body and to
enter into the world to be the college
students in a secular classroom who
aren’t afraid to proclaim the word of
the Lord to be bosses and employees and
secular businesses who aren’t afraid to
play to pray over lunches and guide
their their friends and their co-workers
to Christ
this is what we’re doing if you’re doing
anything other than that
you’re doing it on your own because
you’re not doing it for the body of
Christ
if we are not we always forget about the
Great Commission like like thank you
Jesus I appreciate it
but I’m just going to show it for an
hour and a half every other Sunday and
I’m good
that’s not what we’re called to be
we’re not growing the body of the
Kingdom if we’re not growing churches
Capital C churches growing churches and
bodies people showing up to gather to
Worship the Lord I’m not talking growing
churches and bigger buildings now a
result of that may be a bigger building
but don’t big you know the whole thing
if you build it they’ll come
that’s not the way the kingdom works
that’s the way the world works the
kingdom is counter-cultural to
everything
build it they’ll come as a bunch of bull
grow the kingdom and God will provide a
place for his people to come
when he told us to leave that house a
year ago
leave your home and plant a church we
didn’t even understand what it meant
we don’t want to build it
because I’m not giving you a building
I’m giving you a body and a Shepherd but
I want my people to be provided for so
when it’s 38 degrees December 18th they
got a place to come
but let’s not mistake what we’re doing
today we’re not ordaining this couple as
licensed minister of the Gospel to go
and sit in a building somewhere and
that’s not the reason our heart’s been
called to them it’s because you’ve been
out and you’ve been doing the work of
the Lord
long before we met y’all but now we want
to do it together
so we’re going to move into this time
for this ordination ceremony and you
know just like when Scott did early in
the year and he taught on on what is
communion
I want to share really quick and then I
want to move into this ceremony so I I’m
I’m never going to lie to you I Googled
a little bit
I Googled benefits of being an ordained
minister and this is what the world says
that you can perform various religious
rituals
you get elevated religious clothing
foreign
their secret
clergy privilege like nobody’s told us
so
um
there you go you get to officiate
weddings
and the thing that really struck me was
special parking passes and privileges
now what I’ll tell you
if you have the heart of a Shepherd like
you do
you’ll never find a pastor with the
heart of a Shepherd parking in the front
of a church
they find a further spot away from that
door and that’s where they took their
vehicle
so this is the world’s idea
of what a minister is
but let me tell you what what the Lord
says it is a simple right where a
person’s calling to the Pastoral office
is publicly Affirmed
that’s all it is you don’t need a big
show you don’t beat it we’re not we’re
not making you guys who you are we’re
just affirming what God said for you to
do that’s all it is
you know it doesn’t make Nick and
Kirsten any more holier than anybody
else we all understand that we’ve got
100 righteousness of God living inside
of us they can’t get no more perfect
than the perfect Lord that’s in dwelling
in them through the power of the Holy
Spirit
it’s a public affirmation ceremony that
affirms the person that you guys have
been set apart by God
to serve as the Shepherds
you know God’s ordination the church
ordained the root word for Dana’s order
we’re setting things in order
we’re setting it in order just like the
five-fold ministry it sets things in
order
there’s five ministerial offices that
Jesus himself left and he said these
gifts I leave to you this is Jesus said
I’m giving you the blueprint to do
Church
and setting things in order we see it
Joseph was ordained as a ruler of Egypt
we find in Acts 7 and 10 Apostles
ordained leaders to serve the Jerusalem
Church in Acts 6 and pastors were
ordained in each City in Crete Titus 1
5.
this is why we’re doing what we’re doing
today
because it’s right and it’s setting
things in order and we want to publicly
affirm Nick and Kirsten so if you guys
would come up
with Leah
and for those who don’t know Leah’s my
wife my azir
AKA chair chair carrier
Zach
psfc
you wanna
parking spot I’m sorry this is the
parking spot this is it
so you know again in honesty
this is our first coordination
so we went to the source we went to the
Holy Spirit we went to prayer and we
said
how do we make this
honorable to you Lord
appropriate informational
I always always spiritual
and this is the verse that the Holy
Spirit led us to
it’s John 13 12-17
so when he had washed their feet
taken his garments and sat down again
he said to them do you know what I’ve
done to you
you call me teacher and Lord
and you say well
for so I am
if I then your lord and teacher have
washed your feet
you also ought to wash one another’s
feet
for I have given you an example
that you should do as I have done to you
most assuredly I say to you
a servant is not greater than his master
nor is he who is sent greater than he
who sent him
if you know these things blessed are you
if you do them
foreign
you guys have washed
a lot of feet
and you’re going to continue
washing feet
you know the last time Jesus gathered
with his disciples
he intentionally washed their feet to
set the example of what a servant is
it’s an example that we’re going to
continue we’re going to cling through
like I said Nick and Kirsten have washed
a lot of feet
and you’re going to continue
and we’re so proud of you
and you know
one of the things that that I was
praying about the Holy Spirit revealed
was that was the last big Gathering
Jesus had with his disciples this is
also the last time we’ll be together as
a body for this year
the holy spirit is so beautiful in the
way that he works things what I would
like to do now I would like to invite
their their family
our five-fold office holders who were
here and our elders who are here to
stand with them to lay hands on them and
I’ll read the charge
it says this couple Nick and Kirsten
have been publicly set apart for
ministering with the bible-centered
faith celebration prayers and the laying
on of hands in accordance with the New
Testament scriptures they are hereby
recognized as licensed Ministers of the
Gospel
by means of this ordination we confer
all the rights and privileges of a
licensed Minister including the
authority to conduct marriages baptisms
burials and other forms of religious
worship
and sacred functions
these privileges are granted in
accordance with the tenets of five
Stones Church while maintaining a Godly
life and spiritual standards of teaching
in accordance with our statement of
faith and the holy scriptures
naked cares to meet these requirements
and we are happy to officially ordain
them both as licensed Ministers of the
Gospel congratulations and God bless you
[Applause]
[Music]
go around
what what Leah is offering it’s it’s
certificates
it makes it official but we also in this
time of worship in this time of
Celebration is we’ve been teaching about
investing in the kingdom and we are
sowing the seed five Stones Church is
sowing a seed a financial seed into into
their Ministry in Tennessee
what we also want to do is we invite the
body that if you feel led to to sow a
seed into Ministry into their Ministry
we can do that today with check or cash
and also on our you guys are from with
our online giving there’s a drop down
box that specifically says five Stones
Church Tennessee uh any anything that’s
giving to the end of the year we’ll be
giving it’ll be another seed that’s
sowed into their Ministry
you know the way the Holy Spirit works
is so beautiful we’ve not been talking
about Kingdom finances and investing for
this day we didn’t even know this day
was going to occur until the holy spirit
said make it occur on this day but we
know it’s important to invest in Kingdom
growth Nick and Kirsten
are that investment
so if we could stand as the body
and we could we can lift a hand towards
them
Byron would you lead us
our five-fold teacher will lead us in
prayer and then immediately after prayer
we are going to go outside for a family
photograph so our teacher Barn
Hallelujah Lord
please
father we thank you for this day in
history this significant day in history
I thank you that today Heaven is
witnessing
this ordination
this is right on time right on schedule
Lord you separated this couple from
their mother’s womb
Lord for this day
for this day Lord they look back over
their lives
and everything Lord the ups and the
Downs the ins and the outs the the
tragedies the
the bad Church situations and the good
church situations Lord you have worked
it all together for good as only you can
do to bring about this day today
so Lord we stand with them today in the
name of the Lord Jesus we stand with
them and their children this family and
Lord we commission this family
this whole family we commission them
for this work of the Kingdom
that they stand together
not only his husband and wife but they
stand together
as a family
as grandparents as parents
that Lord this family is Sanctified unto
you for this purpose and we thank you
Father you’ve knitted all this together
as only you can do
so Lord we just release faith upon them
our faith Lord we release our love in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ the
Lord that we send them forth and the
authority and the power
of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ I thank
you they are equipped for this that you
have equipped them without them even
knowing father they were being equipped
you were equipping them and so Lord we
just released the power the anointing of
the Holy Spirit upon them for this task
for this assignment and we stand with
them lord they’re not going out from us
they’re going out with us in the name of
Jesus we give you the thanks that praise
the honor and the glory in Jesus name
amen hallelujah
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