<P> In addition to this, Acts 13: 1 - 3 lists some "prophets and teachers" in Antioch: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen and Saul (who later became Paul). </P> <P> After the close of the Apostolic Age, Christian writers still referred to the existence of prophets . For example, Irenaeus wrote of second century believers with the gift of prophecy, while Tertullian, writing of the church meetings of the Montanists (to whom he belonged), described in detail the practice of prophecy in the second century church . It is, however, the teaching of Edward Irving and advent of the Catholic Apostolic Church in 1832 that marks the earliest known movement of what is commonly labeled as fivefold ministry . The church ordained twelve apostles and had specific understandings of the roles of prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers . </P> <P> This trend picked up steam in 1948 with the Latter Rain Movement giving renewed emphasis to fivefold ministry, and soon after with the Charismatic Movement and Third Wave movements, led by figures such as C. Peter Wagner, who is dead, but was the leading figure in what he coined as the New Apostolic Reformation, which emphasized the specific need for apostolic leadership in the Church, among the other fivefold anointings . </P> <P> More recently, Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost have coined the acronym APEPT to refer to Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers . In the revised edition of their work, they have adjusted the acronym to APEST: Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers . </P>

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