Category: General

We know that Todd’s behavior is a pattern of behavior that continued for fifteen years, during which time he was in ministry and leading ministries. We know that the people victimized by his leadership were close to him, vulnerable to him because of his anointing, and trusting because he used his role and position to take advantage of them.

The fathering hearts are turned toward returning sons because the sons do not return with ultimatums in their hearts.

In other words, entering the Roaring Twenties, we should reset our value system to a Biblical point of view about the value of overseers with expertise and experience, both of which are gained by extended exposure to the graphe, rhema, and Logos. We should regain our appreciation and appraisal of the scholar of the written Word.

We must see “fathers” and “inheritors” in the context of God’s Oikos, a lineage of inheritance through which the purposes of God become available in greater opportunity for fullness in each succeeding generation.

The famous phrase from Paul’s discussion of kingdom leadership, “equipping the saints,” ain’t about equipping. At least, not so much. The idea that local church pastors teach people to do stuff so they aren’t doing it all – well, that is so far removed from what Paul discusses that we need to start all over to think about Ephesians 4.

To the specific point of the urban legend about the original church had no building or budgets, led by one apostle, distributed in house churches is not the model for the New Era Reformation.

He wants us to mature into overcomers. He wants us to represent Him as qualified, authentic inheritors. He wants us to respond to the constant, consistent challenges to our wholeness with overcoming authority and power.

If you are preparing prophets for the office in the various specializations of prophetic personality and production, you will lead them to a prophetic preparation plateau.

My spirit is part of me. I am not standing around with my body and soul, while my spirit is off doing universal cruises and flights into realms. I am one. I perceive with my spirit in spiritual reality just as I do physically with my physical body. I am not a take-apart potato man.

So, we started down this American path of updating the Bible to fit the 1960s and started looking for a way to make Jesus say, “Don’t judge.” We can only do this by ignoring the passage in context, the remainder of the words of Jesus, the instructions of Paul, and the behavior of all apostles and kingdom leaders in the new covenant portion, and the principle, processes, and protocols of kingdom culture.

Modern church-growthism cannot be judged any less guilty of syncretism than Dark Ages Roman error. By combining Renaissance thinking and humanism – the autonomy of Man – with its contemporary, limited “authority of the Bible” hodge-podge. Blending existing culture into church-anity is the opposite of kingdom culture. You will find this basic to church-growthism but contrary to the strategy of the King.

The “Not Yet, but Later” idea misses the entire point about the kingdom of God. It says the spiritual kingdom is not as real as the physical manifestation of the spiritual kingdom. That kingdom will always be spiritual with a physical manifestation. The issue at present isn’t whether or not we have the kingdom or the manifestation of the fullness of the kingdom, but the hiddenness of the glory of the kingdom. We must discuss the influence of the kingdom of God in the Earth as a kingdom instead of ignoring the kingdom of God as if “church” substitutes for it until the physical return of the King.

After carefully surveying the Bible’s statements and presuppositions, practices of Jesus, originating apostles, and kingdom leaders in regional Ecclesiae, the New Covenant revelations are more apparent to me.

I saw in the Spirit a kingdom-wide movement to capitalize the greatest harvest of history.

To mature the restoration into her New Era Reformation, we must purge the leaven of church-growthism from our understanding of the design and definition of ekklesia.