July Edition
July 2023 E-Crier Newsletter
Welcome to July! The month in which farmers wanted field corn to be knee-high. Now the held belief is that corn should be as high as an elephant’s eye. We have a neighbor who has a small garden patch which we enjoy watching grow. If you have a garden, I hope that it is in full growth mode.
I want to thank everyone for your prayer support this past month. I had two skin cancer surgeries over the period of a couple weeks. The stitches have been pulled and by the time you read this, all the surgery sites should be healed. I still have some post-surgery therapy to perform. My future attire will include brimmed hats and high rated skin protection. My wife has already purchased a couple of hats.
My apologies for the late notice on the Nation Builder’s Summit which I am including information on below. I received notice a couple weeks ago, after the June issue of E-Crier Newsletter was mailed out. The sessions will be recorded so you can review at your convenience. Nation Builders Summit is being streamed from Great Britain on British Standard Time, so most of America will be watching recorded sessions as there is an eight-hour time difference for Pacific Standard Time.
Hoping everyone has an incredible month of July!
Blessings, Rolland
KINGDOM CITIZENSHIP
If you are receiving our First Place Ministry Newsletter, you probably are familiar with the term Ekklesia and its interpretation in the Greek, “Ekklesia is defined as the called-out Saints and those who are to be a ruling body, a ruling government.” It is not either or but both a community which functions as Adonai’s body and His ruling government.
You are aware that I have published a book titled, “Ekklesia Declared!” In this book I discuss the statement made by Jesus and recorded by Matthew 16:18, “upon this rock I will build My community; and the gates of Sheol will not overpower it.” Jesus declared Ekklesia, not church.
I hope that many of you have also read Leaving Church, Becoming Ekklesia by Tim Kurtz. He is one of the speakers at the Nation Builder’s Summit June 24, 2023. I have interviewed Tim about the Ekklesia Centre which he founded. Tim also has a podcast on Facebook which I encourage you to listen in on.
The Nation Builder website linked above, has several video podcasts giving explanation about Ekklesia and citizenship in God’s kingdom versus Church membership, our identity as Ekklesia and many other issues about Ekklesia which I explore in my book.
I give you these links as resources which will help you in gaining a deeper understanding about Ekklesia and helping you to explain Ekklesia to others.
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