Just came across this thought at From Eden to Zion:
I believe the main reason why thousands of apostolic teams are not criss-crossing the globe is because our current unbiblical model of church has replaced itinerant Apostle with Senior Pastor. And if your church is lucky enough to land and domesticate an Apostle as your Senior Pastor then he will out think and out grow the churches around him making your church the happening place in town.
Can’t say I’ve ever thought about the question in quite these terms, but I suspect there’s some truth to it. This particular post begs the question, How do we assure that pastors & elders do the pastoring and eldering (new verb form) while serial-planter apostles do not settle down?