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You will learn about the biblical foundation of each of these major principles of war, and how the Lord showed me to use them in ministry, business and city transformation. This course includes Tim Taylor's 80 page book "Developing Apostolic Strategy" and MP3 downloads providing 5 hours of personal training. Leadership Principles - Keys to Developing Effective Strategies If you understand the principles you will understand the right questions to ask.
Lessons in this Course Module 1 Completed? Timeless Principles with Priceless Testimonies This lesson includes a video presentation of a workshop in Spokane Washington. The Power Points that accompany this 1. The Principle of Offense. This lesson includes a video presentation of a workshop in Spokane Washington. You will learn about the strategic principles of: It provides the practical steps, communication forms and functions that is being automated through our new strategic communication system we are releasing in While some terms have changed, the functions and principles this system is based upon has never changed as it is based upon an ancient pattern gleaned from King David and Nehemiah.
All the testimonies developed from leaders in over 36 nations came from leaders who applied these principles using parts of this system with just pen and paper or emails.
What is so encouraging to me is that whenever we succeed in establishing a beachhead, or a prototype, we are then in a position to help others do the same. Not to reproduce a rigid structure, but to embrace the nature of the new. Activating the transformation of local churches into apostolic centres is now at hand. I can foresee a great number of churches becoming like the Antioch or Ephesus centres, generating a life that cannot be contained within their walls, constantly sending apostolic teams across the land and creating a spiritual revolution in the nations. Acts was the beginning.
The end is now unfolding. The first detailed account of the development of an apostolic network is found in Acts It can be understood that this process included instructions being given and apostolic authority being exercised. After the trip was completed Paul and Barnabas went back to Antioch, their sending apostolic base. Even though Paul remained the central figure of the movement, more and more apostles were added, having either been trained with Paul or having arrived from other journeys.
Local churches multiplied and appeared everywhere. As they continued developing, not without growing pains, true apostolic centres were formed that had a strong influence that reached beyond their own borders. Corinth and Ephesus are examples of this, or even Thessalonica that became a model to all the believers in the provinces of Macedonia and Achaia.
Today the times have changed, but the original pattern is still relevant. Just as the seven mountains that influence society are not stand-alone hills, apostolic centres cannot afford the luxury of existing independently from one another.
Having a global vision is one of the characteristic of apostles, and apostolic centres must carry that same DNA. In a very practical way the apostles choosing to align with this vision are called to develop as many networks as the spheres and capacities the Lord has given them allow.
Depending on whether they are a residing or itinerant apostle 14 , our role is to either help them transform their local church into an apostolic centre or to help them develop their own network. The picture I foresee is a proliferation of networks interacting with each other producing a power grid for territorial governance.
This outburst of rage was fueled by much deeper concerns than the economic losses of a declining pagan temple industry. It was a direct response to the advance of the kingdom of God in that city.
The apostolic centre Paul was establishing in Ephesus had become an unbearable challenge to the spiritual forces ruling that area. The whole riot was nothing but a staged contention for territorial dominion. There are no two ways around this one. To gain spiritual authority in any region you need cohesion in the camp. If we want to see whole areas conquered, occupied and transformed, we need to strategically move away from the end of the book of Judges This remains, above anything else, the greatest task of the apostles in our day and age. If this work is not done properly we will keep seeing a dysfunctional body of believers trying to fulfill a mission that is way beyond its grasp.
The nations will watch the pathetic attempts of divided members trying to achieve what only coordinated efforts could ever have a chance of accomplishing. Without the proper linking of apostolic centres and networks, there is no global structure to receive the orders of the king and to implement them with strategic order. Instead of a fit and well proportioned body we end up with a few supersized ministries that are poorly connected to a weak and random collection of scattered local churches.
I can foresee apostles of healthy spiritual families being in relationships with each other, well surrounded by prophetic companies, taking the blueprints delivered from heaven and putting together global implementation operations to redeem the time, set the captives free and reshape our cultures. Entire regions and nations will be restructured as we align ourselves with a cohesive and corporate apostolic leadership.
This functional rearrangement of the decision mechanisms will require much more than the occasional round table discussion. Whenever we consider the mountains shaping our society 18 , we realize that the real impact they have is not so much dependent on the height or strength of any single one of them taken individually, but rather on the singleness of purpose linking them into a range. As apostolic centres continue to develop, not only will we keep sending more and more gifted individuals to exercise a growing influence on specific mountains, but we will see the emergence of new breeds of centres moving away from the traditional location on the religion mountain and migrating towards other mountain peaks.
The apostolic mandate to link together centres and networks operating on the various mountains will give birth to a renewed spiritual landscape of mountain ranges. As we see the emergence of this geographical alignment, there will be a synergy of the gifts operating with focus and efficiency, reflecting God ordained governmental authority for spiritual transformation of whole cities and regions. Whole movements were birthed, as a new breed of revivalists rose up, who refused to accept the current state of society, with all its social and moral injustices.
These revivalists started on a journey to either confront the systems ruling at the top of the mountains of influence or to infiltrate them; in both cases, displacement of the kingdoms of this world by the kingdom of God has been the goal. But the action of these groups of new revivalists has, for the most part, not been able to be embraced within the traditional wineskins of our local churches.
Even the emerging apostolic movement, still young and in a formative period, has been struggling to unfold its wings outside of the confined space of comfortable and safe Christianity.
But there is a new development on the horizon. The transformation of traditional local churches into apostolic centres changes the whole paradigm.
Apostles, surrounded by apostolic teams, can now activate and release the saints to impact their cities and regions in every sphere of society. These apostolic bases are becoming major agents of change, gaining influence, favour and authority to reshape the world we live in. More than ever before, each of these centres will become a city on a hill that cannot be hidden.