The Saul-David Transition Part 3/8 But he removed Saul and made David their king ... Acts 13:22 Heart-shift There is currently a heart-shift occurring. Saul’s ‘heart condition’ was why God replaced him with David: And when He had removed him, He raised up David to them to be their king; to whom He also witnessed and said, I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man … [Read more...]
Paradigm-Shift
The Saul-David Transition Part 2/8 But he removed Saul and made David their king ... Acts 13:22 Paradigm-shift There is currently a paradigm-shift in how we view ‘church’. God is ‘fussing’ with our ecclesiology—our concepts of the church, the ecclesia. We have viewed the church through our particular theological or denominational lens, unwittingly investing the … [Read more...]
The New Order of the Kingdom
The Saul-David Transition Part 1/8 But he removed Saul and made David their king ... Acts 13:22. The transition from Saul to David typically foreshadows a shift currently occurring in the church. As I write in 2005, many across the Western church, including market researchers such as George Barna, are now recognising on empirical grounds (through measuring trends) that a … [Read more...]
Saul Leadership
So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you." 1 Sam 15:28 Saul lost the kingdom and it was given to one better than he—to David. This transition from Saul to David typically represents a major shift currently occurring in the church. It is not so much which group we are in, but … [Read more...]
The New Reformation: Its Spirit and Structure (Part 2)
... until a time of reformation Hebrews 9:10 Having established the deeply personal heart-foundation of reformation let us move from the individual to the corporate—from the new wine of the processed heart to the wineskin of corporate life. Like the 16th Century Reformation, the new reformation will be triggered through the unveiling of a truth. However, the unfolding of … [Read more...]
