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Understanding Prophetic Church Dynamics

This document discusses what it means for a church to be prophetic. It argues that if apostles and prophets are the foundation of the church, then the church itself should have a prophetic nature. A prophetic church is utterly obedient to God and jealous for His glory alone, without concern for itself. It understands its role in interpreting events for its locality and nation from God's perspective. A prophetic church can sustain prophetic individuals and understand their unique calling. It sees the continuum of past, present and future and encourages others to endure whatever issues may come with God's eternal purposes in view. Regrettably, most churches have lost this prophetic context and view of their role in God's eternal plans.

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Understanding Prophetic Church Dynamics

This document discusses what it means for a church to be prophetic. It argues that if apostles and prophets are the foundation of the church, then the church itself should have a prophetic nature. A prophetic church is utterly obedient to God and jealous for His glory alone, without concern for itself. It understands its role in interpreting events for its locality and nation from God's perspective. A prophetic church can sustain prophetic individuals and understand their unique calling. It sees the continuum of past, present and future and encourages others to endure whatever issues may come with God's eternal purposes in view. Regrettably, most churches have lost this prophetic context and view of their role in God's eternal plans.

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Chapter 7 - What is Prophetic Church?

If apostles and the prophets are the foundation of the church, it would not
be wrong to conclude that the superstructure itself must be made of the
same substance and kind; that the church in its entirety is itself a prophetic
and apostolic phenomenon. It itself is the interpretive agency in the locality
where it is, and in the nation where it is, to give meaning and understanding
to the nation of its own events and its own history.

The heart of what is prophetic and apostolic is an absoluteness toward God


in the jealousy for His glory and consequently an utter obedience without
regard to the consequence to oneself. When we say, therefore, that the
church has got to be prophetic, then this is what we are talking about. A
fellowship that lives for God with an utterness toward God, without any
regard for itself and consequences to itself, that has at its heart a jealousy
for God, His glory, the fulfillment of His will and particularly His eternal
purposes—then that church is prophetic.

Anything that we are saying about prophetic and the prophetic word is not
only appropriate to the individuals that have such a calling, but to the
church itself of the last days in its prophetic constituency. If the church of
the last days is not prophetic in its character, make-up and use, in the
locality where it is and the nations where they are, then God's program
cannot be effected. A prophetic church is a church that understands these
things and can bear these things. It can have men of a prophetic kind in their
bosom and be able to sustain them and not be offended by them. It can
understand the peculiarity of their calling and why they are required to
function as they do, and not give itself to the criticism and the negative
speaking or thinking about them that would discredit both itself and them.

Prophets see more than others the continuing influences that issue from the
past and profoundly affect the present and the ultimate future. They see the
continuum, the unbroken span of past, present and future as few see it. They
know who they are in God. Whatever therefore the issues of the immediate
future, however uncertain, a prophet can bear them. They can encourage
others to bear them and communicate the sense both of the things that were
past and the things that are future as being integral and related. This is also
the distinctive privilege of the church.

Regrettably, the church more or less does not have this context. It does not
see itself in the broad perspective of God, nor in the eternal purposes of
God, and therefore everything suffers loss. The Lord Himself has said that
He will not return until Elijah first comes and restores all things. The
ministry of restoration must precede the Lord's coming. Part of that
restoration is the apostolic and the prophetic view of the faith, which view
has been itself been lost.

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