Dave Barnett

There are few people who are willing to walk the path that Pastor Dave Barnett has chosen to walk. In a world that likes shallow church community in which people within the church walls barely bump shoulders with one another. Pastor Barnett has made it his mission to be missional small group pastor who goes out and through his small groups have “skin to skin contact” in which people are deeply involved in one another’s lives. In doing this he creates deep relational change in which people are able to disciple one another through iron sharpening iron tactics. The only frightful aspect of this type of ministry is that it strays away from our typical setting in which we picture church occurring. Therefore, certain things like tithing and organized ministry are hard to “patrol” and monitor through an overseeing leadership. As a result, Pastor Barnett may not know where his paycheck is coming week to week because the tithing structure of a church is not done in the same matter. He requires a leaning on the Holy Spirit that all of our Pentecostal brothers ought to learn from. Often times because of our scars left by our bad “Holy Spirit experiences” we are fearful to allow the Holy Spirit to intervene in our ministries but Pastor Dave Barnett has allowed the Holy Spirit to take precedence in his ministry.