Revelation 4 provides the first glimpse at “must take place.” The first step to understanding what must take place is understanding the heavenly pattern that God wants on the earth and how that partner show affect the way we build the church.
Many Christians think of the gospel only as the message of Jesus’ first coming, but that is an incomplete gospel. The gospel is both the good news of Jesus’ first coming and the promise of His second coming. Jesus second coming has always been the great hope of the church,
Are we too driven by non-biblical definitions of success to follow the ancient paths? If you are satisfied with influence, popularity, comfort, and success, you can avoid the wilderness. However, there are simply some encounters with God that are found only in the wilderness. Crowds are seducing, but the wilderness
La generación en la que vivimos es única. Por primera vez en la historia, la Iglesia está enfrentando dos desafíos sin precedentes: Hay que alcanzar a todo grupo étnico con el evangelio; y Se debe abordar una controversia global en torno a Israel y su futuro. La mayoría de cristianos
Everything in this age has been made for two reasons: God wants to be known—This age has been designed by God to reveal the deepest parts of His person. God wants a people formed into His image—God is using this age to shape and form a companion into His image.
Discipleship is the primary task Jesus gave the church in this age, so every believer must answer two questions: Am I making disciples? Am I discipling people and being discipled according to the biblical paradigm? Discipleship is often reduced to acquiring new information, embracing certain disciplines, or adopting certain behaviors,
Uma resposta cristocêntrica a questão de Sião e do povo de Deus. Poucos assuntos foram mais controversos, ao longo da história, do que Israel. Alguns dizem que seu significado terminou no primeiro século, mas se Deus terminou com o povo judeu, como Israel milagrosamente ressurgiu como um estado depois de
I wrote the book One King: A Jesus-Centered Answer to the Question of Zion and the People of God to deal with one of the major tensions of the New Testament: the New Testament redefines the people of God, but at the same time does not replace promises made to
