• Apostles are visionaries, pioneering and always pushing for new territory.
• They like to start things like non-profit organizations, churches and businesses.
• Biblical examples are the twelve disciples and Paul.
• Immature apostles cannot discern between God’s voice and the constant flood of ideas in their brain. They are trying something new every week.
• Because an immature apostle has trouble staying focused on the task at hand, people eventually begin to quit following them.

Core Question the Apostle Asks:

Are we leading the people of God to their destiny?

• The prophet's role is to share what they have received from God, and then back away.
• The immature prophet instead will try to push the revelation into application, which can be extremely harmful.
• Prophets often assume they are always right because often they are. This however, can build a false sense of confidence, as they forget where their wisdom comes from. This can cause the prophet to become arrogant, overly critical, haughty, and hard to teach.
• Mature prophets are really quite humble, as they understand the revelation is not theirs to begin with.

Core Question the Prophet Asks:

Are the people of God hearing His voice and responding appropriately?

• Evangelists often have a love ’em and leave ’em attitude. Once a person becomes a believer, evangelists are often quick to pass them off to a small group, and the new believers never hear from them again. This is a result of the evangelist’s heart being focused on the “out” relationship. This is not a healthy picture of relational Christianity and becomes damaging to the new believer.
• Immature evangelists can “water down” the gospel, utilizing the afterlife approach and playing the “get out of hell” card. When this is done, everything about the Gospel “now” becomes obsolete, and this can become terribly destructive.
• A mature evangelist leverages his natural ability to connect with people who are far from God to bring them into long-term relationships, then training them to then go out and find more lost sheep.

Core Question the Evangelist Asks:

Are new people being added to the Kingdom?

• Immature shepherds love spending time with people in their pain, but they are unsure how to move them from this place to one of healing and transformation.
• Immaturity in shepherds results in a lack of confidence in pushing or challenging others to take steps forward for fear of messing up the relationship.
• The mature shepherd can live in this tension. Revisit 2 Timothy 2:2.

Core Question the Shepherd Asks:

Are God's people growing in their faith and their understanding towards God and each other?

• Immature teachers can rely on their ability to wow people from their intellect instead of relying on the authority that is given from Scripture and the Holy Spirit. A teacher’s authority doesn’t come from how smart he or she is, but from the Word of God and the power of a transformed life. Romans 12 is a strong indicator of why your gift was given to you in the first place.
• Note: the Word does differ between teaching (didasko) and preaching (kerusso). By definition in Strong's Concordance they are as follows:

Preach: to proclaim, herald, to announce a message publicly and with persuasion.

Teach: to cause to learn; instruct, impart knowledge, disseminate information.

The best definition of these two working together that I have come across is that "preachers are able to change the desire of the heart while teachers are able to change the mind." The former requires passion while the latter requires perseverance.

Core Question the Teacher Asks:

Are the people of God reading His Word?