This past week, a great friend and colleague from Spain asked if we had ever come across 5QCollective. I was sorry to have to tell him we hadn’t. But maybe you have? If so, how did it work out for you? I guess it traces back to Alan Hirsch? Was it helpful for you and your group to learn more about your gifts in relation to APEST (apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding, and teaching intelligence as described in Eph. 4)? If so, please click comment and share your findings with our friend.
10) What’s Your Take on Tools From 5QCollective?
I had Alan Hirsch as a professor for a class dedicated to APEST type leadership. I’m currently working on a paper explaining how “The Perfect Team” would have to include each of these gifted individuals.
Overall, I find the 5QCollectice very helpful with many good tools. Theologically, I find a difference between someone who is given by Christ to the Church as an Evangelist (ephesians 4:11) and those given the gift of evangelism by the Holy Spirit. 5Q tends to emphasize that everyone has some (or all) of these APEST qualities, but I personally see a distinction between APEST individuals and gifts of the Spirit.
However, if used as a “spiritual personality” type test, it does help a team understand how each other is gifted and what roles are most applicable for an individual on a team.
I have taken the 5Q test, but my team has not taken it yet (I told them we will soon). Once I finish my paper on “The Perfect Team” we will take the 5Q exam as a team and see how we can fill those roles well.
Hi Doug,
Hirsch and 5Q have excellent movement resources. In Motus Dei (Hirsch is a contributor) we are working to integrate many of these “silos” in movemental intelligence. Curtis has done some good initial work in trying to take the APEST ideas into frontier missiology. See https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/equipping-disciples-for-ministry-as-kingdom-priests
-W