Even though this was not my first book, in many ways it goes back further than any of the others for the simple
reason I was taken to church from a very early age. Many people just seem to accept what they are raised in
but for me I tend to question everything, so as I grew church certainly got that kind of scrutiny.
The thing is, for as far back as I remember I always felt church was not quite what it should be - and maybe not
even close. Though I couldn't dismiss it altogether because at times I was deeply impacted by it.
Then I got born again and read the Bible from a more enlightened position, which only seemed to confirm how
I felt about it. What I saw in the scriptures was something quite different to my experience. Then people
put books in my hands that expressed the same view, so that made me think even more I was onto something.
From there it was around 2008 I was led to write a pamphlet about it, even before I began writing books. After which came a
very strong confirmation I was hearing God correctly, and further strong confirmations over the years that followed.
From there I did nothing more with those ideas until 2018 when God led me to write something autobiographical about
my time in the mining industry, after which God said to me -
that was just writing practice, I now want you to
write the book on church. So I did.
It wasn't an easy book to write, I must say. And the end result only seemed like a draft to me. But later God spoke
to me about it and said -
This book will advance, but it will only ever be a draft. The reason is because beyond
this it can only be learned by doing it, for the simple reason that it must be led by the Spirit and so it must be
dynamic rather than working to any fixed template. That said, there are important fundamentals so I believe what
this book offers is the starting place, and that is its purpose.
From there came the biggest confirmation of my life, because once I'd written it I said to God -
How will you
authenticate this book? He then gave me the 2020 book to write as its authentication, which essentially
prophesied what turned out to be the pandemic of 2020, the year before it happened - and this was when no other
prophet seemed to be saying those things. Quite the opposite.
What I know prophetically about this book is first that it's time will come. And second that I will be around to
see it and be satisfied with it in my lifetime. Maybe there are new drafts of the book to come before then. I
am thinking and praying about that. But I expect when it's time comes God will make it abundantly clear to us.
The only thing I would add is that I have come across a number of books by trusted prophets that are basically saying the
same or similar things about church, as many seem to know the modern church falls short, so it will come for sure. What it
takes is for some that are hungry for God to realise that this is where the real blessing is.
Certainly some of the message in the book about advancing technology has already come to pass, so maybe we are in fact already
at the beginning of that revolution. I have no doubt this book is prophetic and it's message is a BIG DEAL for the KINGDOM
OF GOD so we can be sure that God will have his way in the end.
Here is the actual synopsis of the book as it now is.
Explores the original principles of the New Testament
church after the Spirit fell, offering the way forward for
the Christian church to come as it returns to its original
model, vision, and values.
This short book draws largely
on a significant work of the author and missionary
Alexander Rattray Hay in South America, and his book
The New Testament Order for Church and Missionary (1947).
An old-fashioned title but an advanced and
prophetic message pointing the way to the future.
His work was based on the experience of taking the gospel
to the mission field and discovering that though the
gospel was powerful, the western forms of church were
a total flop.
He therefore returned to the Bible to
discover the true principles of the original church and
then put this into practice to discover it was powerful
and vibrant.
The church in Argentina where he was
working has since seen revival on an unprecedented
scale, leading us to stop and examine that key work and
what it may hold for the church in our day.
Expect to be challenged as this focuses on what the church was
originally and should still be. And be ready for all your
modern concepts of church to be questioned in the light
of this proven model.
