God's Call -Advance God's Culture of Love

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     As we will see with culture the first lens through which we view determines what we see and therefore how we behave. To be apostolic first means that we know who we are, that we are sent, resourced and assigned. When that awareness is placed before everything else it adds to the expression, beliefs, and behavior of every believer.

 First is to say all of God's family carry the DNA of Christ. That DNA was established by Jesus.  The twelve, that He chose, He called  them disciples first then apostles. They were apostles before he was crucified, resurrected and left us the Holy Spirit! Jesus called them, modeled the Jesus way to them, all with the intention of sending them.

All the five ascension gifts given by Jesus are to advance God's culture of Christ's love for mankind as the hand of God interdependent of one another equipping the saints for the work of service. The  gift of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Sheperd & Teacher are commissioned to advance an ethos of Christ and have the same relationship with Christ and with one another as every follower of Jesus as they equip the saints to know they are sent.

Matthew 28:18-20 MSG  Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.”    

A new wine skin presented by the Apostle Paul was not creating a hierarchy as we see elsewhere in authority structures of the church today. The posture of Paul considered himself the least in the apostleship given by God & became a servant to all.  A progressive journey of greater humility seen when we read his letters in order of being written. 

We also read the apostles and prophets as being the foundation of the church.  A beautiful picture showing us that it is on their principles and expressions in relationship that all else fits into place and is established. Humility & foundations do not lend themselves to hierarchy, they lend themselves to laying down personal agendas in order to serve the whole.

Ephesians 2:20 AMPC  You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus Himself the chief Cornerstone. In Him the whole structure is joined (bound, welded) together harmoniously, and it continues to rise (grow, increase) into a holy temple in the Lord [a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated, and sacred to the presence of the Lord]. In Him [and in fellowship with one another] you yourselves also are being built up [into this structure] with the rest, to form a fixed abode (dwelling place) of God in (by, through) the Spirit.

We encourage you to walk in the divine order of Christ's building and advance the ethos of Christ's love that his love secured.

I Corinthians 12:27-28 NKJV Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

This is not about a person with a title, it is about taking the words of Jesus that we are all the sent ones, sent with heavens perspective, which will affect everything we do. Embrace the chief apostle, Jesus Christ and the  commissioning of Jesus unto His Five-Fold grace gifts present today and see the world through the lens of His divine order.

Hebrews 3:1  NKJV  v1 SO THEN, brethren, consecrated and set apart for God, who share in the heavenly calling, [thoughtfully and attentively] consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whom we confessed [as ours when we embraced the Christian faith].

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