This is a big question, and this is only part of the answer. In a denomination, the churches and pastors relate to an organization with a constantly changing personnel who come and go on the basis of elections or appointment. In an apostolic network, the church and the pastor relates to a person who is an anointed man of God for that purpose. Relationship is designed to be permanent and is in the nature of a father-son relationship. In families, children do not re-elect their parents every few years, nor parents adopt out their children to adopt another group every few years. In the apostolic nature of the church, structures are based on permanent relationships which can only be based on a father-son model where sons know their father, and a father knows his sons. The role of the father is to bring the sons to maturity, just as in a family, once the children grow up, they become mature adults, able to father others. Yet as adult fathers, relationship with their father remains. Thus, in apostolic ministry, one never keeps subordinates dependant on oneself, but seeks to bring them to maturity.
