5Q Assessment

What if Christ has given the church all the gifts necessary for the accomplishment of the in breaking of heaven on earth and to gain maturing even attaining to the fullness of Christ? The Apostle Paul certainly thought that is the case in Ephesians 4 when he said as much that when he said, “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

What is key for us to know is that this is a general letter written to an entire church, not a group of leaders or “clergy” which means that Paul is describing everyone not just leaders. This has become what is known as APEST (apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, teachers), the five-fold ministry, or as missiologist Alan Hirsch has coined it, 5Q. The five-fold intelligence that Christ has given to the church. The truth is that we need all 5 giftings in the church in order to gain maturity and no one person (aside from Jesus) has every displayed perfectly all 5 gifts.

I would love for everyone to take the assessment linked below to see what it reveals when it comes to your gifting. I have been taking courses on how to interpret, process, and utilize toward maturity each of these gifting and I believe it is an incredible tool to gain awareness and language for growth, maturity, and participation in the vision. It does cost $10, which isn’t much, but if this is a barrier please let me know. I would love to start being able to use 5Q language as we lean further into maturing toward launching communities on mission.

I would make sure you have about 20min to take the assessment, free of distraction, and what is really important is that you answer honestly, not how you think or would like to answer but how you would naturally. I am really exciting to see the kind of gifting mix that we have among this group! Once you take it, if you can send me the PDF it produces that would be great!) Let’s continue to lean into great awareness and gifting together!

– Pastor Jared