Greg
Roberts once had vision of heading up a mega-ministry. He saw
himself flying to conventions in airplanes to proclaim the Word of
God to the masses, a model he learned from the Word of Faith
preachers he so admired.
When Roberts looks back on those visions, he sees his own
immaturity. When he looks ahead, he sees the apostolic. What Roberts
has always seen is God’s desire to build strong local churches.
“I had a true hunger for truth and a great desire to instill that
truth in God’s people – to give them a word of faith and
deliverance,” said the young apostle whose roots are found in the
evangelical Baptist church and, later, the Church of God. The
Pentecostal, Charismatic and Faith movements influenced Roberts.
Now, he is crossing over his congregation, Hiawassee, Ga.-based
Eastgate Church, to the apostolic.
God began revealing the apostolic to Roberts in 1997. Though he
could not define what he was sensing in his spirit, he began to see
ministries emerging that were much different than what previous
moves had modeled. He describes those ministries as challenging,
confronting and building-minded – and it stirred in him a great
hunger.
“I was dissatisfied with where I was at in God, but also
dissatisfied with where I saw God’s people and the local church,”
Roberts recalls. “I was very hungry for more, to go on farther even
though I didn’t understand it all. I grabbed hold of it because it
fit with what was inside of me. It wasn’t something I dreamed up. It
fit and felt right!”
As Roberts pursued what he believed was the will of God for the
Church, God used a prophetic presbytery to give him an assignment:
planting a new church. The Lord assured him that “religion won’t be
able to move you.” He would lean on those words when during the
warfare that tried to hinder him and his new assembly from embracing
the fullness of the apostolic mandate to build the Church of Jesus
Christ.
Roberts reports that the apostolic has changed his believing, his
perspective, and his approach to life and ministry. One of the
greatest impacts of the apostolic is an impartation of...
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