Our Mission and Vision

“And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: (Eph 4:11-12 KJV).

We purpose to build disciples of Jesus Christ by empowering people to walk out the Gospel and impact the world around them. Our vision is to gather, shepherd, encourage, confirm, and release into ministry those individuals God joins with us, as well as to develop, establish and oversee foundational expressions of Christian worship, training, prayer, and service.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

A New Way of Thinking

I believe 2011 will be looked back upon as a pivotal year for the church of Jesus Christ in America. The fervor of mid-term elections is over in our country and I feel like our attention needs to be turned from the temporal to the eternal, from our earthly affairs to His spiritual mandate. There is certainly a time and mandate to be political and do all we can to elect Godly leaders and continue to pray for those in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty (1 Tim 2:2). But there is also a time, and that time is now, that God’s people must be prophetical, being used as Kingdom ambassadors to usher in the rule of God into every situation we have influence in and others we have up to this time ignored. But in order that His kingdom be established through us, it must first be established in us.

You see, salvation is the door into the kingdom, but the establishment of the kingdom is a process within us. In the New Testament, we first hear of the kingdom in Matthew 3:1,2 and 4:17. It’s interesting that the last of the Old Testament prophets as well as the One of whom they prophesied connect repentance with the kingdom of heaven in the present tense; at hand. We have for a long time forgotten what the meaning of repentance is. We seem to rally around the point that repentance is a change of behavior. What we forget is that without a change of mind, an action can only be modified for a time; a definite change only comes with a new paradigm to support it. Repentance in the Greek is metanoeō-to think differently or afterwards, that is, reconsider.

So the kingdom comes now only with a change of mind that brings a new attitude which affects our actions. What John and the prophets of old were saying, what Jesus and the New Testament apostles were saying, what the Spirit of God is now saying to the Church is, we’ve got to change our mind on some things. What things? Anything that is keeping us separated from God's purposes to use us in the building of His kingdom.

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