Gather or Be Gathered

As I study the biblical pathway of gathering, I continue to learn and marvel at how Jesus does this. Since discerning what the Bible has to say so clearly about gatherers, I have worked to train others in Simple Gathering. But I have become aware of another kind of gathering, thanks to a key leader Read More

Gatherers are not Evangelists – Distinction 3

A third distinction between evangelists and gathers is that evangelists keep on moving, both with individuals and with local assemblies. Evangelists are gifted to share the truth of the gospel with people. I watch them and love to see them work. As they tell people about Jesus and His gospel, they proclaim, they reach, and Read More

Gatherers are not Evangelists – Distinction 2

In my just-shy-of-forty-years of vocational ministry, I have met six evangelists who self-identify as evangelists. Perhaps I am not hanging out in the right places, but I am not meeting large numbers of men and women who will raise a hand when asked, “Are you a gifted evangelist?” The gifted evangelists I know are amazing. Read More

Gatherers are not Evangelists – distinction 1

Gatherers are not evangelists in at least three ways. First, they do not necessarily share the entirety of the gospel. They don’t give a gospel presentation­ to unsaved people as we would commonly think an evangelist would. Gatherers gather people who need to hear about and know Jesus Christ. Gatherers bring the unsaved into the Read More

Gathering and Other Gifts

How does Gathering interface with other gifts? Is there a pure Gatherer gift? And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to Read More

The Gathering Gift

We do not find gatherers listed in the New Testament gift lists, so why or how do we call gathering a spiritual gift? Let me build fences around what I believe is true about gatherers and gathering. Hopefully these fences will corral the truth. Profound cultural expression Twenty Greek words and 183 occurrences of these Read More