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

The Church did not “just happen”!The day after Pentecost, Peter didn’t simply wake-up with a random thought ...“Hey guys, let’s start a church! Let’s go find a plot of property with a building on it, put out a sign promoting the launch of the ‘First Church of Jerusalem’, and start canvassing the streets announcing the first service coming on Resurrection Sunday!”The church was divinely planned!In ...  Read More

SACRED COW MAKES GREAT HAMBURGER!The sift we are now in … Old Wineskin to New Wineskin … has been coming for the better part of the last 5 DECADES. God has given us plenty of time to get rightly positioned! And yet, in the hour we now find ourselves in, it is becoming increasingly clear that many churches have chosen NOT to prepare!I hear a lot … and I mean ALOT … of talk coming from churches that...  Read More

Just as the Jewish people who returned to Isreal after 70 years of bondage in captivity had to revive their long-lost land, I believe that a REMNANT CHURCH is being called out of “Babylon” in this hour to revive the long-lost wineskin of the 1st century ekklesia that was birthed in the Book of Acts … but has grown progressively lost over the past 1,700+ years! And just as the Jewish people had to ...  Read More