You can’t fit ministry into a box. The opportunity to bring heaven comes at the most inconvenient, unplanned and unprepared times. That’s difficult for a structured, “have my whole day planned out” person like me! The feeding of the five thousand is a perfect example. The event is recorded in every gospel (Matthew 14:13-21; Mark [...]
The most foundational New Testament principle for the Ekklesia is found the Greek word, “oikos” which means household. The expression of household in the early church connected the family AND the workplace. This characterized both the relationships and influence the family had in their home. Acts 2:46-47 “ 46 So continuing daily with one accord [...]
As believers, we are seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 1:20) and do life from heaven to earth. Jesus said that he only did what he saw His Father in heaven doing (John 5:19). We must rule as Christ’s Ekklesia from a place of love, joy, and intimacy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Christ’s [...]
There are some pretty wild misconceptions and practices when it comes to binding and loosing. When binding and loosing comes up, I’m drawn to images of people shouting, yelling, holding, pacing, pointing, asking names, and spending hours on end with limited results. This behavior is usually directed, but not limited to, a person, a principality, [...]
Here at Convergence, we have been experiencing the message of Ekklesia growing in our hearts and in each one of us. We keep hearing testimonies of how the message of Ekklesia is revolutionizing our homes and workplaces, and while we are still at the beginning of understanding the fullness of this message, one thing we [...]
We are now clear that Jesus said that He is building His legislative ruling assembly, namely, His Ekklesia, and that the target of His Ekklesia is the gates of Hades. But what is needed to invade these gates and destroy the works of darkness? In Matthew 16:19, Jesus gives us two things we must do to [...]
