Prayer teams, retreats, fasts, and vigils characterize these churches more frequently than committees or workshops. Believers expect to taste God s power and be directed in their service. Through that dependence, the apostolic flame is kindled. The Apostolic Relationship New apostolic congregations also produce and deploy leaders. Laity are affirmed as they launch all kinds of ministries and little control is attempted.
Leaders further arise because of networking with other leaders.
An especially gifted pastor will often raise up many pastors, mentoring them as they plant new churches and continuing to mentor them. As new pastors develop, many of them become apostles, multiplying leaders who plant and pastor churches. Consequently, churches grow and multiply uninhibited by bureaucratic requirements. The new apostolic environment offers young leaders encouragement rather than obstacles to act on the nudges of God s creative, entrepreneurial Spirit. As these young Davids and Josephs initiate ministry and explore their gifts, they do so with the friendships of wise and gifted leaders who provide a much closer and comprehensive accountability for them than the impersonal rules of the denominations.