Where Is Office Of Evangelist Who Is Not A Pastor Or Missionary

There are many full time Evangelists who are neither Pastors or church builders. Many are high profile preachers with much influence. Many writes books and promotes the modern idea of continous rewriting of the English Bible.

Is this a calling or just a career pursuit?

 

If a man said God was calling him into evangelism and he happened to be a Greek Scholar where would he find his marching orders if he did not become a pastor or a missionary? What else is an evangelist supposed to do? I read where the apostle Paul said of the local church pastor that he is to do the work of an evangelist. It seems to me that many treat this as a separate office of the church but I could be wrong.

 

Paul was an evangelist in the purest sense of the word. He started local church congregations everywhere he went and the letters he wrote to them is the instructions for all churches even at this very day. He was an apostle. He was called to be an apostle. It was a foundational office of the church of Jesus Christ. There are no apostles since those 13 men and no prophets, another office, since those 70 men. The closest thing we have today is the evangelist who never starts a church or goes anywhere there is not already a church. It seems to me that the closest we get to the NT pattern is the missionary who devotes his life to his calling or the pastor who is doing the work of an evangelist as part of his calling. What do you think?

 

Christians put up with a lot of non Christian behavior, don't you think.

Among the list of Spirit given enablement's, called gifts of the Spirit, in 1 Cor 12, apostle and prophets mentioned as being first. That is because we learn in Ephesians 2:20 they are foundational.
,1Co 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

It is interesting that evangelist is not mentioned as a gift, so my conclusion is that evangelism is the work done by the apostles and prophets and though they are no longer present with us, their work goes on through the pastor and the missionary who starts churches and organizes them where there are none. I don't see the modern activities of most evangelists as having scriptural authority, but I have been told my thinking is wrong on this subject.

 

Ephesians 4 mentions the gifts present when the letter was written in 60 AD. If the mere mention of the gifts then present, as is done in this passage, were to be considered as perpetual instruction for the church, would we not still have apostles and prophets today and shouldn't we still be confirming the gospel with miracles?

 

I have heard men say God called them to give up pastoring a church to go into evangelism. These men did not become missionaries and as far as I know never started a church The ones I have seen and known have travelled around from city to city and church to church. I know there is scriptural instruction for apostles and prophets concerning their calling and also for pastor teachers, but where is the instruction for the evangelists?