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Our Vision
Our vision is to see the corporate Church of the city return to her "first love" (Rev 2:4) and walk in true spiritual identity, turning from her harlotry, compromise and consequential irrelevance. Only when the Church returns to her true spiritual identity and is restored to righteousness will she re-gain her spiritual authority. Only then can the Church once again become an agent of change on the earth, partnering with Jesus to see His Kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord Jesus is not returning for a powerless, prayerless, impotent Church! He has called us to purity, absolute devotion, and signs and wonders. The Church is destined to be a radiant Bride without spot, wrinkle or blemish, properly prepared for the perfect Son of God! (Eph 5:27)
We pray and labor for unity in the Church and the "fusion" of various Kingdom components (e.g., prayer, worship, fasting, unity, intimacy, etc.) and God-ordained ministry partnerships to fulfill God's purposes in cities and nations. We long to realize what Paul promises in Ephesians 4:15, namely that we "will grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ." This can happen only when the Body of Christ is unified in relationship and function.
We believe that Jesus is worthy of our worship, our friendship, our time, treasures and talents. It is our objective that the presence of Jesus and intimate relationship with Him be the central pursuit of our lives on the earth, reflecting the eternal reality of our destiny to be His Bride throughout eternity.
It is our conviction that the spiritual barrenness of the Church in the Western world is not because we lack good church activities. Rather the Church's spiritual barrenness is the inevitable consequence of our lack of spiritual intimacy with Jesus and our broken covenant with God that results in the lack of His manifest presence in our churches and His favor in our communities. Our highest objective, therefore, is to challenge and inspire individuals, the church and community leaders to pursue God's presence as our greatest good and as essential to the healing, restoration and transformation of our cities and nation.
As a voice to the Church in the Western world, our heart is to communicate the message of 2 Chronicles 7:13-15. The message is: (1) the Western church is in serious spiritual captivity and we cannot deliver ourselves from our condition (v. 13); (2) God's people must assume responsibility for the church's condition by humbling ourselves, seeking God's face and turning from our wicked ways (v. 14); and (3) God's response will then be that His eyes and ears are made attentive to the "prayer made in this place" (v.15), resulting in an outpouring of forgiveness, revival and transformation.
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