New Spiritual Leadership


 * The Shake-up
 * The Age of the Spirit
 * New Spiritual Leadership
 * New Reformation
 * Sacrificing the Church's Idols
 * Disciples Answering the Call


 * Expect Conflict
 * The Red Pill or the Blue Pill?
 * Summary of Why this Book?
 * Goals of the Manifesto
 * An emerging Apostolic Picture

The good news is that through this shaking, when the dust settles, a new breed of spiritual leadership is emerging on the planet. In an amazingly short period of time, this new breed will accomplish what generations have long desired to see – but who have almost given up hope. It is the completion of God’s ordained tasks for the human race on this planet. Just like in the Steven Spielberg film remake of Orson Wells “War of Worlds” (2005) something has been, for ages, lying in the depth of the earth, waiting to be awakened. However, it will not be to the destruction of man, but towards the very completion of the original reason that God had designed man. Foundational to this is the rediscovery, research, application, and finally the symbiosis of two resources that the Bible calls prophetic and apostolic functions or ministries. As these two ministries, unaccustomed to each other for many centuries, initially threaten, then, after the fear wears off, court each other, they are destined to fall in love, get engaged, and finally marry and have very interesting children. A church born out of a legitimate union of apostolic and prophetic ministries will have an entirely different DNA, a different aggregate state, and will be of a different transformational quality altogether. When water meets fire, we discover steam; and, what water and fire on its own could never accomplish, steam can. It can power locomotives, ships and machines to achieve what no one dreamed possible.
 * NEW SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

Many who read this will have read an earlier book of mine, Houses That Change the World. If you haven’t, please plan on doing so. If you feel this is too much, make sure you have a look at the fifteen theses that are a summary of that book; go to [www.thestarfishproject.net] for a copy. Since that book was written in 1998, I am extremely thrilled to observe how, in many countries of the world over the last few years, literally thousands of house church initiatives are emerging. As much as I have been able to keep track, roughly 300,000 new churches have been planted – excluding China –in the last eight years alone. I fully expect that number to reach one million new churches in the next few years. If you want to keep up to date with these fascinating developments, I invite you to subscribe to the electronic news bulletin Fridayfax2 that I edit every two weeks ([www.ffax2.com]).