What Kind Of Clay Will You And I Be?

What Kind Of Clay Will You And I Be?

ekklesia, teaching
I was encouraged recently to receive this message from David Foster, who is Senior Pastor at Manor Park Christian Centre and Chaplain to the Metropolitan Police in Newham, London. It is reproduced below with Pastor David's permission: As we continue to navigate the days ahead, the most important thing we can do is to keep our eyes focused upon Jesus.  Many Christian leaders are in agreement that the Lord’s desire over the past 13 months of the Covid-19 pandemic has been to continue to change His Church into what He wants us to be.  This means that the Church as we have known it in the past will be changed to look and to be something different in the days ahead.  He wants “to make her [His Church—believers in Christ]…
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The Word of our God endures forever

The Word of our God endures forever

In practice, teaching
The importance of being rooted in God’s Word as a Marketplace Minister “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”Isaiah 40:8 This verse has enchanted me ever since I was young. The grass and flowers: part of God’s awesome Creation, things that we appreciate for their beauty but equally we take for granted, even they fail. But, we can choose to root ourselves in something that is everlasting, that which will challenge us, grow us and never fail us: God’s Word. In my role as a Marketplace Minister, all I do begins with my foundation in scripture. It has to be, because what I am called to do, I cannot do with my own strength and understanding. For transformation that begins in the…
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Get the App: Transform Our World

Get the App: Transform Our World

teaching
There is a world-changer inside of everyone that needs to be activated. This app will equip and empower you on your journey to operate as the Ekklesia - God's vehicle to transform the world through the power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. You will receive daily devotions, weekly podcasts and powerful video testimonies that illustrate what it looks like. Find out more or download the app here. Then once you have installed the app, click the 'Join the Community' option to receive premium updates.
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Books to inspire your Ekklesia journey

Books to inspire your Ekklesia journey

teaching
Ed Silvoso’s book, Ekklesia, is the core textbook for term two of our marketplace ministry training curriculum. Silvoso opens with a statement that when Jesus announced the Church, he described it not in religious terms but as his ekklesia - a secular term used by the Greeks and Romans to describe an institution operating in the marketplace in a governmental capacity. The implications are immense, as the author explains: “The Temple and the synagogue were static institutions that functioned in buildings that members had to go to on specified occasions, whereas the Ekklesia was a building-less mobile people movement designed to operate 24/7 in the marketplace for the purpose of having an impact on everybody and everything.” The book provides a glimpse of what God is doing in this generation…
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Blessed are the peacemakers

Blessed are the peacemakers

teaching
In a previous training session, we looked at how the battle is in the heavenly places. This truth is fundamental when it comes to how we operate as Christians in the marketplace. Our real challenge is NOT that pile of filing on our desk; that brimming email inbox; that cashflow problem on our bank statements; that difficult customer or colleague. Rather, remember that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12-13). Knowing that the battle is in the heavenly places is essential to our understanding of our role as marketplace ministers. It will affect how and why we pray for the lost. For a refresher…
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