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Ministerial licensing
and ordination
We see ministerial licensing and ordination as an
affirmation of a leader’s call to a lifetime of ministry
which gives him the right to perform the duties of his
office and any other ministerial functions within the
scope and practices of DCFI. The Regional Apostolic
Councils hold the authority to license and ordain and
are spiritually responsible for all licensed and
ordained persons and their spiritual training within
their region of the world. In most cases, we prefer a
person to be involved in active ministry for at least
two years before ordination. We also encourage them to
have completed our six-month Leadership School, either
on location or by video correspondence. We license and
ordain both men and women.
Like our early beginnings, we are again sensing that the
harvest is upon us. The Lord, like a great magnet, is
drawing people into His kingdom. Since new wineskins
eventually get old, many who have been believers for
years are becoming dissatisfied with life as it is in
their present church structures. God’s people are again
thirsting for new wine and wineskins. The Lord is
renewing and refreshing and reviving thousands of His
people all over the world. And He is requiring us to
provide new wineskins for the new wine, as He brings in
His harvest.
We believe as we continue to commune with the Lord and
obey His voice, build together as a family of churches,
and reach the lost in our generation, there is going to
be a need for thousands of new houses (new churches) and
new rooms (new cell groups). Every generation is
different and has different needs and preferences. We
are committed to empowering, releasing, and supporting
the next generation among us as they fulfill their call
in God. As Elisha received a double portion of Elijah’s
anointing, we want to see our spiritual children far
exceeding us in their depth of spiritual experience and
church leadership. Believers will be called to various
areas of leadership: some to cell group leadership,
others to local church leadership, others to fivefold
ministry, and others will serve in apostolic leadership.
Our long term goal is to continue to establish many
apostolic councils in various regions of the world.
There are apostolic leadership teams who are responsible
for oversight of DCFI churches in seven regions of the
world. The leadership for the DCFI movement, the DCFI
International Apostolic Council, which includes members
who are apostolic leaders from various nations of the
world, will continue to grow as apostolic leaders from
other nations are added to the Council in the future.
This International Apostolic Council will continue to be
responsible for the training, releasing and spiritual
oversight and mentoring of apostolic leaders and
apostolic councils located around the world.
The vision continues
The Bible tells us without a vision the people perish.
The DCFI family is called to keep actively involved in
what the Lord is doing in the world and participate in
the present expressions of His anointing. We desire to
empower, train, and release God’s people at the grass
roots level to fulfill His purposes. Jesus values
people. He has called us to look at people and see the
Father working in those whom the Lord has placed in our
lives.
Jesus only did what He saw His Father doing and He calls
us to do the same. When we find that which the Father is
doing, we can then respond without pressure and we can
get in the river of His anointing and flow with Him. We
can be motivated by the Kingdom, which is righteousness,
peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
In order to contribute the most to God’s overall purpose
for us, we are committed to continuing the wholehearted
pursuit of the specific vision and calling that God has
given us—to build the church with an "underground" focus
in the nations of the world.
Simply put, these are our "roots," and our continued
focus today. You could say that the very DNA of who we
are as an international family of believers in Jesus
Christ today includes our specific calling as an
"underground church" to reach our world from house to
house, city to city and nation to nation. May Jesus
Christ be honored and glorified!
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