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Dynamic New Teaching from Bestselling Author Ed SilvosoThe word church has many connotations; we think of it as a specific building, as a group of people, even as a long service to sit through. We hardly ever think of it as world-changing--and neither does society. Yet this is exactly what the first-century ekklesia was.In these vital, eye-opening pages, bestselling author Ed Silvoso takes you back to the first days of the church. Digging into Scripture, he shows how the New Testament church--devoid of buildings, professional clergy, and religious freedom--was able to transform the hostile, pagan places into which it was born and set in motion a process that changed the world forever.Even more, Silvoso offers a roadmap back to becoming the ekklesia Jesus called his church to be. In the midst of the social, economic, political, and moral chaos in our world today, we possess the hope that people and nations so desperately need--and we can become the revolutionary, transformational, life-giving voice Jesus called us to be.A new, in-depth curriculum kit--which features a DVD with 12 brand-new teaching sessions, a group guide for both leaders and participants, and a copy of the book--is also available. Expounding on the book's dynamic teachings, each kit contains everything you need to equip your group to transform the world around them.

"I truly believe that reading this book your life will never be the same. Every word is imbued with the Presence of Jesus and has been birthed through supernatural encounter." Wendy Alec. Where lifes challenges, the brokenness in others or the enemies lies have defined you and held you captive, as you read the heart and wisdom of Jesus contained within these pages the eyes of your understanding will be flooded with light. You will become empowered to experience a level of freedom and peace you never thought possible. With a renewed security in the absolute love of God, you will be set free to live out of your authentic self and so begin to produce your highest purpose. Ekklesia Rising contains more than just knowledge, it is truly revolutionary revelation. Shawn Bolz - Senior Pastor, Expression 58 This is a unique work and critical message for the Body of Christ today. Rhonda Hughey - Director, Fusion Ministries

“I truly believe that reading this book your life will never be the same. Every word is imbued with the Presence of Jesus and has been birthed through supernatural encounter.” Wendy Alec. We are rising out of the ashes of pain and powerless religion, becoming a pure reflection of God in the earth. Destined to be fully filled with His beautiful, powerful Spirit we are together, an emerging unstoppable force of love and transforming authority. A people the realm of darkness cannot prevail against. As we learn to abide, experiencing and yielding to His life changing indwelling Presence, we receive the ability to live out of who we truly are in Christ. We find His Spirit increasingly flowing through us to heal and align every aspect of our life and identity with truth and to restore every hurting life we touch. Where lifes challenges, the brokenness in others or the enemies lies have defined you and held you captive, as you read the heart and wisdom of Jesus contained within these pages the eyes of your understanding will be flooded with light. You will become empowered to experience a level of freedom and peace you never thought possible. With a renewed security in the absolute love of God, you will be set free to live out of your authentic self and so begin to produce your highest purpose. We are Children of Light, Carriers of God, We are the most valuable, powerful thing in all of creation. This book is a remarkable treasure heralding a message that is sure to impact lives around the world. Gary Beaton - Founder, Transformation Glory Ministries. Ekklesia Rising contains more than just knowledge, it is truly revolutionary revelation. Shawn Bolz - Senior Pastor, Expression 58. This is a unique work and critical message for the Body of Christ today. Rhonda Hughey - Director, Fusion Ministries. I would recommend this book to anyone who is hungry for that 'more' of God that is so prevalent in the earth in this season. Ian Clayton - Founder, Son of Thunder Ministries.

“I truly believe that reading this book your life will never be the same. Every word is imbued with the Presence of Jesus and has been birthed through supernatural encounter.” Wendy Alec. We are rising out of the ashes of pain and powerless religion, becoming a pure reflection of God in the earth. Destined to be fully filled with His beautiful, powerful Spirit we are together, an emerging unstoppable force of love and transforming authority. A people the realm of darkness cannot prevail against. As we learn to abide, experiencing and yielding to His life changing indwelling Presence, we receive the ability to live out of who we truly are in Christ. We find His Spirit increasingly flowing through us to heal and align every aspect of our life and identity with truth and to restore every hurting life we touch. Where lifes challenges, the brokenness in others or the enemies lies have defined you and held you captive, as you read the heart and wisdom of Jesus contained within these pages the eyes of your understanding will be flooded with light. You will become empowered to experience a level of freedom and peace you never thought possible. With a renewed security in the absolute love of God, you will be set free to live out of your authentic self and so begin to produce your highest purpose. We are Children of Light, Carriers of God, We are the most valuable, powerful thing in all of creation. This book is a remarkable treasure heralding a message that is sure to impact lives around the world. Gary Beaton - Founder, Transformation Glory Ministries. Ekklesia Rising contains more than just knowledge, it is truly revolutionary revelation. Shawn Bolz - Senior Pastor, Expression 58. This is a unique work and critical message for the Body of Christ today. Rhonda Hughey - Director, Fusion Ministries. I would recommend this book to anyone who is hungry for that 'more' of God that is so prevalent in the earth in this season. Ian Clayton - Founder, Son of Thunder Ministries.

We are hearing a lot today about the ekklesia, as should be. There is a coming of the ekklesia as it relates to Jesus’ kingdom, His throne and His authority—and all of this ties into bringing us into that place of restoration and dominion as at creation...when all was good. The Bible says the government will rest upon His shoulders, and His disciples kept that in view when each city became the local seat of His government. This is why when we read scriptures it speaks of the called out assembly of Ephesus or called out assembly of Corinth. In essence Jesus was instructing His disciples to build His government with His saints in each city united together as one local body, the local expression of His kingdom. They were thus to bring in His authority and glory on this earth through Jesus their King and Lord.

Have you ever wanted something more from your faith? More than religion? More than church? One lost and forgotten biblical word, "ekklesia," holds the key to a more vibrant and life-changing Christianity. --Modern English language Bibles quote Jesus as saying, "I will build My church." However, the earliest Bibles have Jesus saying, "I will build my ekklesia." For hundreds of years, this Bible word-switch has misdirected the way the body of Christ meets for worship. --So what does ekklesia mean? Ekklesia was the name of the city council in ancient Greek city-states. It was a democratic, interactive, participatory body of equal citizens sharing their concerns and needs with one another.--In the Western world, traditional church is in decline. Religious categories now include millions who are "Dones" (done with church) and "Nones" (have no church affiliation).--Perhaps it is time for more than church. Steve Simms invites you to go "beyond church" and experience ekklesia, HEAVEN's CITY COUNCIL, not as a theological concept, but as a practical and living reality.

About The Ekklesia Project The Ekklesia Project is a network of Christians from across the Christian tradition who rejoice in a peculiar kind of friendship rooted in our common love of God and the Church. We come together from Catholic parishes, Protestant congregations, communities in the Anabaptist tradition, house-churches and more as those who are convinced that to call ourselves 'Christian' means that following Jesus Christ must shape all areas of life. Seeing Christ's Body as our "first family" the Ekklesia Project aims to put discipleship and the Church as an alternative community of practices, worship, and integration at the center of contemporary debates on Christianity and society. For more information about The Ekklesia Project, see its website: www.ekklesiaproject.org About the Congregational Formation Initiative The overarching goal of The Ekklesia Project's Congregational Formation Initiative (CFI) is to develop creative and effective ways of supporting congregations that are committed to making lifelong formation and discipleship central to their life together. To support this goal, the CFI fosters collaboration among pastors, scholars and lay persons to develop, refine and disseminate resources and processes that will help initiate and sustain congregational conversations about the fundamental identity and mission of the church. For more information about CFI, including the place of this study in the overall initiative, see the EP website listed above.

About The Ekklesia Project The Ekklesia Project is a network of Christians from across the Christian tradition who rejoice in a peculiar kind of friendship rooted in our common love of God and the Church. We come together from Catholic parishes, Protestant congregations, communities in the Anabaptist tradition, house-churches and more as those who are convinced that to call ourselves 'Christian' means that following Jesus Christ must shape all areas of life. Seeing Christ's Body as our "first family" the Ekklesia Project aims to put discipleship and the Church as an alternative community of practices, worship, and integration at the center of contemporary debates on Christianity and society. For more information about The Ekklesia Project, see its website: www.ekklesiaproject.org About the Congregational Formation Initiative The overarching goal of The Ekklesia Project's Congregational Formation Initiative (CFI) is to develop creative and effective ways of supporting congregations that are committed to making lifelong formation and discipleship central to their life together. To support this goal, the CFI fosters collaboration among pastors, scholars and lay persons to develop, refine and disseminate resources and processes that will help initiate and sustain congregational conversations about the fundamental identity and mission of the church. For more information about CFI, including the place of this study in the overall initiative, see the EP website listed above.

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A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling in Christian life. However, ideas of vocation are difficult to access in a world shaped by the experience of disenchantment. The difficulties of articulating vocation are explored with reference to Weber, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard. These are further connected to a general crisis of language, manifesting in the degradation of political discourse (Arendt) and the impact of new communications technology on human discourse. This impact can be seen as reinforcing an occlusion of language in favour of rationality already evidenced in the philosophical tradition and technocratic management. New possibilities for thinking vocation are pursued through the biblical prophets (with emphasis on Buber's and Rosenzweig's reinterpretation of the call of Moses), Saint John, and Russian philosophies of language (Florensky to Bakhtin). Vocation emerges as bound up with the possibility of being name-bearers, enabling a mutuality of call and response. This is then evidenced further in ethics and poetics, where Levinas and Hermann Broch (The Death of Virgil) become major points of reference. In conclusion, the themes of calling and the name are seen to shape the possibility of love-the subject of the final part of the philosophy of Christian life: A Metaphysics of Love.

A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling in Christian life. However, ideas of vocation are difficult to access in a world shaped by the experience of disenchantment. The difficulties of articulating vocation are explored with reference to Weber, Heidegger, and Kierkegaard. These are further connected to a general crisis of language, manifesting in the degradation of political discourse (Arendt) and the impact of new communications technology on human discourse. This impact can be seen as reinforcing an occlusion of language in favour of rationality already evidenced in the philosophical tradition and technocratic management. New possibilities for thinking vocation are pursued through the biblical prophets (with emphasis on Buber's and Rosenzweig's reinterpretation of the call of Moses), Saint John, and Russian philosophies of language (Florensky to Bakhtin). Vocation emerges as bound up with the possibility of being name-bearers, enabling a mutuality of call and response. This is then evidenced further in ethics and poetics, where Levinas and Hermann Broch (The Death of Virgil) become major points of reference. In conclusion, the themes of calling and the name are seen to shape the possibility of love-the subject of the final part of the philosophy of Christian life: A Metaphysics of Love.

Good clean copy, includes feminist critical hermeneutics/method, model of reconstruction, renewal movement within judaism, the church in her house, neither male nor female, christian mission and the patriarchal order of the household, patriarchal household of god and the ekklesia of women.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introductory: problems and presuppositions -- Leisure and celebration -- Prayer is a quest -- Communal prayer and the early Ekklesia -- Contemplation as a Biblical reality -- Queries regarding contemplation -- Mysticism and Biblical prayer -- Discernment and authenticity in prayer -- House of prayer: house of joy -- The giftness of prayer -- Wonder ... light ... beauty ... prayer -- Working and praying -- Cross and communion -- Vast void -- Indwelling and prayer -- Continaul communion -- Life style and prayer growth -- Petitionary prayer -- Quenching. 272 pages

"Our Modern Services" is the Prayer Book of the Anglican Church of Kenya, published in North and South America by The Ekklesia Society