The 5 Fold Gifts

What if apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers were never given to create a ministry elite - but to get the whole church onto the field?

For too long, the fivefold gifts have been reduced to titles, offices, hierarchy, personality types, or controversy. Some have abused them. Others have dismissed them. Many have admired them from a distance while the body of Christ remained seated, underdeveloped, and dependent.

The Five Fold Gifts calls the church back to the purpose of Ephesians 4: the ascended Christ gave gifts to His body so that the saints would be equipped for the work of ministry, the church would be built up, and the whole body would grow into maturity.

With biblical depth, prophetic edge, pastoral honesty, and practical clarity, Todd David Hunter unpacks the continuing place of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers in today's church. He shows how each gift functions, how each gift equips, what each gift produces in the body, and how each gift can distort when wounded, isolated, or released without maturity.

This is not a book about chasing a label. It is a call to recover the gifts Christ gave - not so a few can become impressive, but so every believer can become mature, equipped, sent, discerning, caring, grounded, and fruitful.

The end goal of the fivefold is not the fivefold.

The end goal is the fullness of Christ in His body.