Richard Monyer’s Reviews > Apostolic Centers: Shifting the Church, Transforming the World > Status Update

"It is an awesome, unfathomable privilege on earth for people to be able to say, “The Holy Spirit and us,” for in this lies the true secret of the authority to exercise dominion on the earth on behalf of our Father. As the apostolic networking continues to take place, we will keep moving away from the end of the Book of Judges and become better and more tangible expressions of the kingdom of God."

"Apostolic networks are to become the expression of the prayer of Jesus in John 17: “That they may be one.” When we come closer to such a unity, it testifies of the victory of Jesus activated in His body. This is the living structure that can release the grace of God on the earth and disciple the nations."

"The Holy Spirit doesn’t work in a vacuum. He works His plans and purposes inside a created world, using the convergence of natural conditions to facilitate the birth of spiritual realities. Apostolic centers are not emerging randomly; it appears the Holy Spirit is locating them geographically in a strategic way.......that will allow them to feed networks that will bring transformation to the world."

"Christianity without the supernatural dimension is often reduced to trying to make people become nicer and nicer by having them listen to good messages; that is not exactly the radical shift Jesus suffered death for."

"...every single saint, without exception, has a divine calling and capacity to impact the world with supernatural ability." "...through the blood of Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit, we have been made agents of the kingdom of God, carriers of the glory, living gates of heaven on earth, conquerors, and world changers."

A paradigm is the way we see the reality we live in. It organizes the world in our heads according to the assumptions and values we adopt, and it traces the path for our vision of the future. Paradigms first belong to the realm of concepts, and then they give birth to structures. For example, if a society has a compassion paradigm, it will create organizations to care for the needs of the people.

Our mission is to go because we have been sent (apostello) to announce freedom to the captives, telling them to repent because they have adopted the ways of the tyrant and his lies. But now a new king is here: Come and bow before Him, and He will forgive. He is a merciful King.

The focus in apostolic centers is on training people to do the ministry rather than on ministering to them. People are thus treated as disciples rather than simply as converts. They are not trained to fit the church programs but to fulfill their destiny. While converts are flocking into local churches, apostolic centers aim to send disciples out as soon as possible; apostolic centers are springboards for the saints!

"The apostolic pattern can be summarized by this: a word sent from heaven causing the earth to align with it. Whoever carries this word carries authority. It’s a word that shakes and shapes. It declares, “On earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6: 10). Jesus was the incarnation of the word, and before He left, He gave His apostles the words (rhema) of eternal life (see John 6: 68) He had received from His Father."