The greatest shift we need to see in this hour is FROM "church", BACK TO "Ekklesia"!This shift DOES NOT refer to how we "do" church"; it refers to what Jesus actually created The Church to be! Here are some tangible differences we need to see as the Kingdom Ekklesia is being re-established in the earth:  1)  Church is a "pastoral leadership model ". Such leadership is HIGHLY mercy and maintenance ...  Read More

God's Word has already given us the blueprint for the ONLY wineskin that can hold His new wine. In Ephesians 4, He tells us how HE designed the church to operate:“ ... He ascends into the heavenly heights, taking his many captured ones with him, and gifts were given to men.” He “ascended” means that he returned to heaven, after he had first descended from the heights of heaven, even to the lower r...  Read More

[Review from Part 1]For the modern-day church to operate in a New Testament administration, there has to be a new mindset. Let's create a clear comparison between the man-made pastoral church and the Christ-ordained apostolic (5-fold) church; they are two COMPLETELY different "operating systems". Trying to get a pastoral church to operate in a 5-fold administration is like trying to run Apple soft...  Read More

For the modern-day church to operate in a New Testament administration, there has to be a new mindset. Let's create a clear comparison between the man-made pastoral church and the Christ-ordained apostolic (5-fold) church; they are two COMPLETELY different "operating systems". Trying to get a pastoral church to operate in a 5-fold administration is like trying to run Apple software on a Windows PC...  Read More

In last month's blog, I introduced the topic of the "Pastoral Church" as the only paradigm of church leadership that most people today are familiar with. This month, I want to dig a bit deeper into that topic ...        PASTOR    ] [          CONGREGATIONIn the "Pastoral Church" model, there is a congregation ... made up of "laymen". The dictionary defines "laymen" as: those without knowledge or t...  Read More

The Era of the Pastoral Church is OVER!Most, if not ALL of the churches you have known over that past several decades have practiced this simple paradigm ...PASTOR      ] [             CONGREGATIONThere is a pastor; there is a congregation. That is what I refer to as the "Pastoral Church".In a Pastoral Church, each church has a "pastor", and it's that pastor's job to "minister".  A Pastoral Church...  Read More