Topic: Roles of an apostle?
Dan Juster’s propositions:

1. Apostles are what they were in biblical times, except for writing authoritative Scripture
2. Apostles may be chosen by other apostles (apostolic succession in historic churches)
3. Apostles may be chosen supernaturally by the Holy Spirit
4. Apostles provide governmental order and covering for five-fold ministry

• Luke 6:13 -- called by Yeshua
• Luke 11:49 -- more obedience than outcome oriented
• Acts 4:33 Acts 5:39 etc.
• They send help to empower other believers; they are gentle and nurturing; they work together with elders
• People were to obey their decisions
• We’re still in an early, restorative, formative mode
• Apostolic team should meet with leaders in training
• Come for several days to a week

• More comfortable with adjective 'apostolic' than noun 'apostle', though the noun is definitely biblical
• Eph 4 makes it clear that unity requires the five-fold gifting
• Submission is never top-down but bottom-up: even Yeshua didn’t demand submission, but expected voluntary submission to authority
• Authority is relational, not just positional
• Apostolic authority will be restored in signs and wonders
• Living things reproduce themselves, people, cells, congregation, and apostolic streams.

• Psalm 133 says that the oil of anointing for unity flows down the head, so you’ve got to have a head for the oil to flow down onto. Right order preserves unity and ministry, including pastoral ministry.
• What relationship did the centurion have with Yeshua, but he did recognize the Master’s authority.
• Apostolic networks ties congregations together to have influence in the world well beyond themselves.
• Modify bylaws to acknowledge authority to apostolic counsel to deal with significant disputes.

• Over the years, has tried various models
• Adding Jewish things (especially Orthodox Jewish) to church-believing lifestyle
• But NYC Ashkenazic cultural style of Jewish is not necessarily all there is to Judaism
• Witness to what it means to be a covenant-keeping, Torah-observant people to church and synagogue

• For us it is prophetic to live a Jewish calling as Messianic Jews
• A central element of the Jewish community is community (Acts 2:42)
• We need to develop a community that gets together daily, sharing bread
• The Lord is looking for a loving home where he place adopted children

Patti Juster: Hosea 6, Isaiah 30, Job, etc., show that God allows afflictions and wounds in our lives.
Some ask, what kind of loving God would do these things?
You don’t know the love the Father. A father allows chemotherapy to bring healing to his child.
He allows the breaking of a bone to heal the bone.
He allows the fire to burn away impurity.

1. The Return of the Jewish people to the land is a fulfillment of prophecy. Much of the Church won’t look at it. "Not one shall be left behind." Make aliyah.
2. When the Jewish people are back in the land, their eyes will be opened: Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 37, Hosea 3. Don’t look at your human relatives; look at the Scripture.
3. It brings blessings to the world. Since Israel has been in the land, the statistics spell accelerating revival. 12,000/hour Chinese coming to the Lord. Indonesia is 20% believer, Korea 40%. Revival among Muslims.

1) Broad orthodoxy: we are in accord with the orthodox teachings of the historic church.
We may want to speak about these in a Jewish framework, and need to correct teaching about Israel.
Our primary relationship to the Church is yes, not no.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Philippians 2:5-11 (confessional hymn, based on Isaiah 45:23, deity of Yeshua).
We can affirm (using Messianic terms) the Apostle’s creed (2^nd century).
We’re not going wrestle over these things, such as the triune nature of God.
Some say that they are seeking "a more authentic Messianic Judaism," i.e., more like the synagogue.
The test of authenticity is how we reflect in our theology and worship the central themes of Scripture.
There’s diversity of liturgy, Hebrew, etc., so that they who visit us will say "Jewish."
New covenant realities have to be the center of our worship and our preaching.
If we play them down, we’re going to miss it. Resurrection power must be released. We are a new creation.
Yeshua must be the central point. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men onto men."
We as a network are going to be firm on this.
Cindy Jacobs. Evangelical Pietism and the Jewish People. The Church is not wholly anti-Jewish.
We’re not de-legitimizing the Church. We’re not seeking to turn the Church in Messianic Jewish Synagogues.
We roll our eyes at fringe groups like the Ephraimites. You don’t have to be a descendant of the lost tribes.
We don’t need to seek convert Gentiles into Jews. 1Corinthians 7.
Let’s learn from Don Finto. In Israel, he found he has a Jewish name, so he must have had Jewish ancestors.
Still, it’s authentic for Don Finto to come alongside Tikkun as a Gentile.

2) Jewish calling: we are to keep Torah in a New Covenant way. Jeremiah 31.
The New Covenant assumes the knowledge of Moses. It assumes the Holy Spirit will teach how to apply Torah.
The Sermon on the Mount is not just the old dispensation of Moses.
It is the New Covenant application of Torah principles, more exacting than what was understood before Yeshua.
Torah life is the release of power by the Spirit, releasing the deeper meaning of Torah practice.
Torah life is filled with the prophetic.
It’s not a cafeteria option. Those who are born Jews are called to live as Jews. It is an irrevocable calling.
The saved Jew is the saved remnant of Israel.
Our task is to the Jew first, to integrate our lives in the Jewish community, a part of Jewish community, not apart from the Jewish community.
Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven."
We are organically tied to Israel: to Asher, Eitan, Moshe Morrison, Eddie and Jackie, etc. That’s why someone from Israel always comes to a Tikkun Advance. That’s why we encourage aliyah.
So in this regard, we are unity with the larger Messianic movement.
See Tikkun as part of the larger Messianic movement.

3) We seek to move in Holy Spirit power.
No one says "That’s the Holy Spirit and I’m rejecting it." They say, "That’s not the Holy Spirit and I reject it."
We need to accept a broader understanding of how the Spirit moves beyond our cultural assumptions.
Stories about how God prepared Dan through prophetic experiences for powerful anointing on Patti.
Asher once roared like a lion and knocked over a row of chairs.
Dan didn’t know what to do, so he said, "Let’s sing Adon Olam."
The Holy Spirit is by definition associated with signs and wonders, gifts and manifestations, in first century and all revivals since. See Jonathan Edwards.
Synagogue and Church have chosen the rationalistic over the prophetic, because it feels safer.
The same manifestation can be of God or of the flesh; you need discernment.
Prophecy is the best, because it brings discernment (2 Corinthians 14).
Commitment to cell groups. This is the place to see people mature in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

4) We believe in the unity of the body. John 17:17-21. "That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."
Church of the City.
When the leaders of the church in a city is in unity and takes communion together, that is the highest level of spiritual warfare against the principalities and powers over a region.
When the powers of darkness are bound over a city, there will be a massive revival of Jews and Gentiles.
Separate kingdom building weakens witness, especially to the Jews.
Toward Jerusalem Council II has to take place in every city.
There is one body.
Appreciate cultural differences and our own calling.
Success of our mission is contingent on the state of the church of the city in our locality.
Ted Simon and El Shaddai has leadership over Tabernacles celebration with sixty churches participating in Frederick.

5) We believe in the restoration of five-fold government. The New Covenant pattern is normative.
There is a function of apostolic ministry and oversight that has never been done away with.
It remains in the historic church, in apostolic succession. Unfortunately, it has become formal.
So God is reviving it through charismatic gifts and power.
Just as there is an eldership to oversee a congregation, there is an eldership to oversee a network of congregations.
There is a plurality of elders; no head honchos who cannot be overruled, but mutual submission.
Peter Wagner, The New Apostolic Churches.
Tikkun started when Asher prophetically said that we need to have our own Messianic apostolic stream, starting with Beth Messiah, El Shaddai and Rosh Pinah (Moshe Morrison).
Church of the city also needs apostolic leadership. Other streams will have to submit to local apostolic leaders.

6) We are a high commitment network.

1. We are committed to gathering together. It’s necessary to build relationships, hear the Spirit, accountability, etc. Advances, leadership counsels.
2. We have to travel to be with each other. Apostolic team travels; we travel to one another; pulpit exchanges.
3. We court before people join. Others join us because the Spirit leads them.
4. We tithe. Pastors tithe to their oversight. Congregations tithe. We tithe for mission expansion. Emissaries, MJBI and bible schools.

Moshe Morrison reads his paper about revival in his town, "Piercing Pikesville." (Hilarious and visionary!)