A Shift in Leadership

A New Order for a New Move

God has raised up apostolic leaders to release believers throughout the history of the Church. This is what the apostolic anointing is equipped to do. It takes an apostolic grace to be able to facilitate such releases. It has always been a radical concept to release the majority. Most religious leaders are afraid to do so. They are afraid they will lose control. Apostles help create new wineskins. Old wineskins cannot handle this kind of expansion. Old wineskins are rigid and inflexible. Organizations and churches often become legalistic and dogmatic. It is their way or no way. When this happens, God raises up apostolic and prophetic leadership, which brings a fresh word and help to create new wineskins. These anointings are more radical and progressive. They attract a new group of believers who are not held back and bound by a religious mind-set. The result is the formation of new wineskins. Apostolic leaders will often be branded as troublemakers and heretics. Martin Luther was not the favorite preacher of many in his day. His preaching and teaching was radical. He put the Word of God into the hands of the common people. This broke the stranglehold of the privileged few. He upset the status quo. He dared to challenge the concept of clergy over laity. The new wineskin comes into being when men rediscover truth. It has been there all the time, but hidden by the tradition of the Church. The spirit of revelation comes to open the eyes of believers to the truth. This truth is preached in spite of opposition. What was birthed in the heat of reformation becomes standard truth in the years to

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