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One of our School of the Kingdom groups in Cambodia

The Apostolic Reformation © 2025 Philip M Spence There has been a quiet but relentless reformation happening in the body of Christ for a few decades now. No one person or organisation spearheads this reformation. It is Holy Spirit led. He is the Governor of the Kingdom, and He is reforming Christ’s Church in our time. Reformation is a generational process, so we can expect our children and grandchildren to observe and participate in the outworking of this apostolic reformation. Therefore, we must work from a generational perspective. So then, what is this apostolic reformation? What does it look like? What is it founded upon? Here are some thoughts which are by no means exhaustive. [1] The Kingdom The beginning point is the Kingdom of Heaven on Planet Earth. Jesus’ mission, mandate and message was all about His Kingdom. Everything He did and taught was for the purpose of establishing His Kingdom and mobilising an army to advance its cause across the world. The King began by raising up a group of twelve apostles, followed by a group of seventy apostolic leaders. They preached the gospel of the Kingdom and taught the explained truth about the Kingdom. Their mandate was to represent the King to their world. Their mission was to establish the Kingdom of God in the hearts of people everywhere, and by so doing, advance the Kingdom as God’s alternative to a broken world. The body of Christ became known as the Ekklesia. This was the body of people who learned how to govern Kingdom affairs as led by the Holy Spirit. The Ekklesia exists to be the authentic representation of the King and His Kingdom in the earth. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is the context for the Ekklesia. Everyone and everything finds its place in the context of the Kingdom. The apostolic reformation brings revelation about the Kingdom, the authority of the Kingdom, the order of the Kingdom, and the supernatural ways of the Kingdom, into being. The reformation is from man’s ways to God’s Kingdom ways. [2] The Ekklesia Jesus declared that He would build His Ekklesia, and that even the gates of hell would not be strong enough to withstand its advancement. Ekklesia was a Greek word which described the government of cities and nations. The Roman Empire adopted the word and applied it to Caesar’s Senate. Then Jesus shocked His followers by using this foreign concept. The Ekklesia is a body of people who are called out of society into the Kingdom of God, where they are to learn how to govern in Christ’s Kingdom. Members of the Ekklesia first learn how to govern themselves, then their environments. Faithfulness in these areas will result in greater spheres of influence on behalf of our King. The Ekklesia is the Christ’s original pattern for the Church. We were never intended to just be church attenders, servants, or leaders. Our destiny is to govern God’s purposes in our communities and nations. The apostolic reformation will produce overcomers who know how to conquer and rule. This will produce a very different kind of church. [3] Apostolic Governance The question now is: Who will lead this and how is it to be structured? The Ekklesia is built on the foundation of apostles and prophets, all of whom only do the King’s bidding. Apostles come first in time, place and order in the Kingdom. This does not make others lesser. This is God’s order of things. Apostles lead the governance of the Kingdom, but they need prophets to complement them. Prophets tend to see what apostles miss, and apostles usually have the big picture context for what the prophets are seeing. Together, there is a balance and strength of leadership and ministry to the Ekklesia. Together, apostles and prophets impart what is needed for the teachers, pastors and evangelists to be more effective. Together, apostles and prophets maintain the Kingdom context and focus for the body of Christ. Apostolic governance is not just over a local congregation. Apostles are graced by Christ to govern cities and regions. They oversee multiple groups, ministries, and Kingdom advancements. They do this on the strength of relationships built, the grace and authority bestowed by Christ, and with the synergy of fivefold graces at work. [4] Five-Fold Team Ministry Five-fold team ministry is not a church leadership concept, or a church ministry team. It is not gift based or performance oriented. It is certainly not about anyone’s time to shine. Five-fold team ministry is built on humility. It also requires the synergy of the five graces. This can only develop where trust relationships have been built, and each one is hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit. Five-fold team ministry will manifest the Kingdom, edify the Ekklesia, and honour the lead of the apostles and prophets. Five-fold team ministry is about coalition. It is about complementing one another to create a synergy of graces which will produce greater outcomes for the glory of God. It is about each member of the fivefold knowing who they are and understanding the ebb and flow of the Holy Spirit at work through a group of people. Five-fold team ministry means corporately coming to know the mind of Christ. [5] Spiritual Fathering & Sonship Everything that we have discussed so far can only produces God’s best outcomes if it is founded on God’s relational pattern, which is fathers and sons. God was a father before creation. We know this because He created a son called Adam who represents all of humanity. Throughout scripture we see Fathers and sons: Elijah and Elisha, Paul and Timothy, and so many more. The apostolic reformation will not achieve its fulfillment without the spirit of sonship. God is not looking for servants; He is seeking sons who will become spiritual fathers who will birth and raise spiritual sons. Kingdom leadership and ministry must be built on this principle. Fathering is Kingdom leadership, and the training ground for leadership is sonship. The apostolic reformation will lose its way of we do not stay true to this Kingdom leadership pattern. We must understand and advance the Kingdom of Heaven in the earth. We must understand and function as the Ekklesia. We must embrace apostolic governance of the Ekklesia. We must build fivefold relationships and function. And we must do all of this based on spiritual fathering and sonship. Then we will see a greater potency in the apostolic reformation. https://www.enlarj.com/post/the-apostolic-reformation

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School of the Kingdom Global is now on an app, so if you click the link below, then click Join, fill out the registration process, then click to Download the app, you will find the school. It has 15 modules with many sessions in each module. There is video teaching for each session, and the notes are below the video. Here is the link - https://www.skool.com/school-of-the-kingdom-9271/about

Here is the link for our SotK Catch Up at 7pm (Brisbane, Australia) on Monday 29th September. If you’re not yet doing SotK, feel free to join us to learn more… https://www.skool.com/live/nskSm7fwkM8

We are excited about this year’s summit in Brisbane, Australia

By Terry Chamberlin: « Someone recently said about home churches: "House churches work until you grow to big for it. Nothing wrong with a building to meet in." Grow too big? You mean like when 3,000 people came to Christ on the day of Pentecost? Those 3,000 who all met in homes all over the city, impacting all their neighbors? Big churches prevent all that the Body of Christ is there to accomplish: Turn everyone in the church into power sources. The big church is made up of mostly people who come and sit and watch a select team put on a show for them. They sit there and watch and are never involved in healing the sick or evicting satan or raising the dead or healing the blind, or even bringing others to Christ. The Body of Christ is an organism, not an organisation. The stronger/bigger the organisation, the weaker the organism. During the appropriately-named Dark Ages, the Roman Catholic church organization was stronger than most governments. During this time, seeing anyone heal the sick or raise the dead was so rare, the Catholic church declared those people to be "Saints" and raised them above everyone else (wouldn't want the regular people to think it possible that they too could do this). The church organization is the biggest enemy of the Body of Christ that there has ever been. It strongly promotes the idea that there are those who do ministry and those who don't. It creates a hierarchy of the professionals (who are paid) and the non-professionals (who are not paid). The leaders and the followers. The gifted and the ungifted. The spiritual and the unspiritual. None of this is in the scripture. It was the religious organization that resisted and eventually killed Jesus. Jesus used an analogy that we ignore in the modern church organization. He made a clear distinction between the shepherd and the hired hand. The hired hand runs when it gets tough. The shepherd does not. The hired pastor quits (or gets fired) when it gets tough. Indeed, the idea of a pastor being the head honcho isn't found anywhere in the scripture. It is an invention of man. This concept of the church being something you go to or attend services at is very destructive to God's agenda. God's agenda is the energizing, empowerment and release of every member of His church, which is us. A big building means a financial overhead. It means needing to constantly appeal to the people in it to give money to pay for it's expenses (mortgage, utilities, property tax, repairs and upkeep). Who will own this big building? One person? What if that person later decides he wants to sell it? What if he doesn't like some of the people attending services there? It's his building, he can do what he wants with it, and no one can say otherwise. So, nowadays, a corporation is created to own the building. The Christians get this "church" corporation from the non-Christian gov't. The gov't makes the rules that govern that corporation. Who owns this corporation? A board of directors (the chairman, the president and the secretary/treasurer). Now they get to say who does what. Whenever persecution happens, the church corporations are the first to go (or be controlled), and all that is left is the actual, real Body of Christ, who meet all over the place in homes, just like on the day of Pentecost. It is also during the times when the church organization is at its weakest (or is non-existent) that the Church of God organism comes alive in power. The gathering of the saints (we are ALL saints) is designed by God to be a close-knit, intimate fellowship of people who know and love and support and help each other. As soon as a gathering gets too big for that, it should split into two smaller gatherings to protect this love and intimacy.

So many believers need to sincerely pray this…

The harvest you reap reveals the seed that you planted (Anthony Young)

When the Lotd asks you to let something go, it’s because it is stopping you from growing in Him

Pics from our School of the Kingdom Global Module 1 graduation in Nigeria

Here is the promo for the Sierra Leone Module One graduation on this coming Sunday

This is our Module One graduation group in Liberia (2 graduates not in the pic)

Here is the link to the message I preached last night at the Spiritual Awakening Conference #diwc #fatherfather https://youtu.be/cdFXQa9XDKU

THE SON made a way for many sons! Happy Easter It was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings (Hebrews 2:10)

Our School of the Kingdom Global operates in 16 nations, and is now on the Skool App. It’s free! https://www.skool.com/school-of-the-kingdom-9271/about

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Diversity in Unity - in the world it brings us down to the lowest common denominator, but in the Kingdom it lifts us to the highest common denominator - Christ Himself (Naomi Spence)

Psalms 19:7-11 7 The law of the LORD is pure, restoring the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes; 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, Yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward.

Speaking at an apostolic leaders conference in India last month

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