Mission and Vision
We are living in days of profound change in almost every area of life. As these changes affect our lives, we are challenged to rethink our core beliefs and practices. This is a very healthy exercise because it forces us to affirm what we know are the unshakable eternal truths of the Kingdom of God and to discard those merely human additions that hinder our growth and the fulfillment of God’s purposes for our lives. In our ministry experience, we are meeting many people around the world who are experiencing such a time of re-examination.
As Jewish believers in the Messiah Jesus, who have, and continue to undergo this process, we have concluded that there has been a steady historic ‘accretion of aberrations’ that have diluted and diverted, resisted and rejected the prophetic purposes of God and the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church. In place of those purposes, and instead of the authentic ministry of the Holy Spirit, there has been a clever and subtle substitution of the “traditions of men.”
This substitution came about because unworthy leaders, motivated by their own uncrucified flesh, carnal needs, and selfish goals, used whatever strategy was necessary to control the people and secure their own place of power. Abusing both the spiritual authority of the Scriptures and their own institutional religious authority, they misrepresented the Lord in order to intimidate the people. Once intimidated, their followers could easily be manipulated into believing and doing almost anything.
By such means, so called “Churches” and “Christians” could even be moved to persecute anyone who opposed the leadership and doctrines of their “church.” Any cursory study of church history will verify this as tragically true. As these substitutions became more and more established as entrenched dogma in the minds and hearts of the people, the authentic truths of the Bible were removed and replaced.
This substitution also came about because the people themselves refused to be authentic disciples of the Kingdom of God. When the Holy Spirit raised up new prophetic voices, as He faithfully does in every generation, they were rejected in one manner or another. Leaders would be removed from their positions and replaced by hirelings who only cared about their job and did what it took to keep it. In tandem with this strategy, the seminaries were infected with other doctrines of demons spawned by those who were determined to undermine the historic truths of the Scriptures and create a “religion” after their own image. Those who were infected created “churches” that were spiritually dead because they taught against the supernatural realities that the Bible invites us to partake in. Once you no longer believe in a supernatural God and a supernatural Bible, what do you have left? A merely natural “religion” that they can remake anytime based upon any teaching that suits their purposes.
Each of these dynamics (and others you may know) created the aberrations, i.e., the beliefs and practices that moved us away from the truths of the Bible. In many denominations, for example, they have moved the Body of Christ away from the person, work and ministry of the Spirit of God. As those churches departed from Biblical beliefs about the Holy Spirit, they began to spiritually dry up and become places of mere form and ritual. The reality of the presence and power of God disappeared from the life of the people. Once that happened, the people were no longer practicing Biblical religion (which in its essence is a religion of love and power), but a substitute that still called itself “Christianity,” that still called itself a “Church,” and still called its members “Christians,” although in the reality of their lives, they were clearly not. This is the subtle power of the substitution of the lie for the truth. When you believe that the lie is the truth, you allow the lie to determine what you believe and practice. For example, if the lie says there is no such thing as “supernatural healing,” or “the reality of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in demonstration in meetings,” you will reject any teaching about it, and you certainly will not entertain the opportunity for it to take place. Your heart will be hardened and your soul critical of the ministers. This hardness and criticalness will make you skeptical and cynical and you will receive nothing from the Spirit of God.
As the Body of Christ becomes more and more “aberrant”, the “religion” that we then “practice” no longer reflects, represents or demonstrates the truths of the Kingdom of God and the person of the Messiah. We then have a religion called “Christianity” that does not manifest the Kingdom of God. It creates so called believers, who in many instances are merely “church goers” who do not have the love or the life of God expressed through their lives. Yet they believe and declare that they are “Christians.”
These beliefs and practices create “churches” that do not demonstrate the life and the fruit of the Kingdom of God. This is evident for those who are willing to ask the right questions, or perhaps dare to question, to challenge and to examine the facts. It is evident in the spiritual life of the members of such churches, as it is evident in the kind of “services” that are held. These are services that are dictated by time and not by the moving of the Spirit of God. They are controlled by small elite groups who exercise authority over the activities of the church and the kind of services they allow. How many times has it been said, “We do not allow that in our church,” or “We do not believe that in our church.” To such statements we must ask the question, “How many of your people are disciples of the Kingdom? How many are bearing fruit for the Kingdom? What kind of lives are they living? I shudder when I think of their fate when they are called to give an account to the Great King on the Day of Judgment.
We have a vision to see the Body of Christ restored to her authentic Apostolic, Prophetic and Hebraic Roots and because of that restoration, see every disciple of the Kingdom equipped and empowered to fulfill their calling. We trust that you will find material on this site that will encourage, educate and equip you to fulfill your destiny and bear much fruit for the Kingdom of God.