The Emerging Faithful Ministers
(An excerpt from “Disciples of Jesus: City Reformers and Master Builders Rising”)
As an overseer of the Colossian church, Paul raised up disciples that
he referred to as “my co-workers for the kingdom of God.” (Colossians
4:11b) Paul, in verse 7, identifies a characteristic of these co-workers for
the Kingdom. He refers to these disciples as “a faithful minister.” In order
to be a co-worker for the Kingdom, you must become a faithful minister
of a specific message—the message of the Kingdom. No minister can be
born into Paul’s spiritual lineage of a messenger of the Kingdom without
first receiving the Kingdom message. Then, in due time, the disciple will
be entrusted to minister the Kingdom faithfully. The faithful ministering
of the information of the Kingdom requires dedication to the preaching of
the information of the Kingdom only. To preach the parts of the Kingdom
one week and the Kingdom as a whole the next is to fall short of becoming
a “faithful minister” and a “co-worker for the Kingdom of God.”
Every time someone communicates they release substance that enters
the observer’s brain. The substance, the form within the information,
assembles a system of neurons in the observer. This neuronal system
becomes potential for consciousness but will only materialize the conscious
experience if the system grows and reaches a whole state. The system grows
as it continues to receive from the same field of information as the original
assembly. A faithful minister must continue to communicate the field of
information of the Kingdom; otherwise the observer has no chance of
entering the realm of consciousness of the Kingdom. Knock and keep on
knocking is the principle of access. Seek and keep on seeking until the
doorway into the Kingdom begins opening.
Put another way, every time a minister communicates, the listener
receives the information in his or her brain. The information, depending
on its form, is either received by the carnal mind or the renewed mind. The
information of the Kingdom is received by the renewed mind and enlarges
the neuron connections of the renewed mind. This increases the potential
for consciousness in the Kingdom as well as "starves" the carnal mind.
When the information received is fragmented and outside the information
of the whole, the carnal mind receives it and further anchors consciousness
in the carnal realm. This form of information sustains carnal consciousness
and "starves" growth and maturity of the renewed mind.
A “faithful minister” is one who presents the information of the
Kingdom long enough for the observer to have the Kingdom belief system
formed in their brain. Once the Kingdom belief system is patterned,
the faith of God is birthed, and consciousness in His Kingdom begins
emerging. A “faithful minister” forms the belief system of the Kingdom
until it culminates in the faith of God. Without faithful ministers, our
faith is, at best, in God. Faith in God is the pinnacle of good in the carnal
mind. The faith of God is the expression of the renewed mind which is
consciousness in the Kingdom.
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.
Matthew 13:44a
The Kingdom of Heaven is hidden in the field of study called
Kingdomology. A disciple is someone who enters that field and begins
the journey of discovering the Kingdom. They begin their discovery with
enlightenment to the eyes of their understanding. Upon further discovery,
captivated by the unfolding mystery of consciousness in the Kingdom, the
disciple begins laying everything else down in order to invest their time and
energy in the field of Kingdomology. As the disciple continues to yield fruit
from their investment in the newly bought field, they discover that the
field did not merely contain a treasure but rather the field was the treasure.
Filled with unending discoveries of the Kingdom, the disciple finds his
abode in the all-consuming, eternal field of Kingdomology.
Abiding in the field of information of the Kingdom is the pathway to
entering the treasure field of the Kingdom realm of consciousness. This
is the pathway that brings the dawning of a new world to your subjective
experience. The ancient world of the Kingdom realm of consciousness
made new to your personal experience. This is the inheritance of the saints
and a potential for Heaven to shift the collective consciousness of a sphere
of influence delegated to you. The yoking of disciples through the unity
of mind is what shifts collective consciousness from this world to the
Kingdoms. This unity of mind is brought into existence as disciples walk
together, in one accord, in the field of Kingdomology.
In Acts 19 Paul was in the city of Ephesus. He “entered the synagogue
and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about
the kingdom of God” (Acts 19:8). After three months of presenting
the information of the Kingdom, he began making disciples—students
committed to receiving his message of the Kingdom. Paul was putting in
motion the principle of making disciples. He had picked up the model
that Jesus left us and was furthering the cause of Heaven on earth. By
teaching the message of the Kingdom to his students, Paul was training and
equipping “my co-workers for the kingdom of God” (Colossians 4:11b).
Opposition against Paul became so fierce that he had to leave the
synagogue. Scripture tells us that Paul “took the disciples with him and
had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. This went on for
two years so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia
heard the word of the Lord” (Acts19: 9b-10). Paul’s remarkable success
in ministry was due to his model of preaching the Kingdom and making
disciples. Paul, following in Jesus’s footsteps, gathered disciples and taught
them the same field of information that Jesus taught His disciples—the
information of the Kingdom. This fact is confirmed throughout the book
of Acts and the epistles.
For example, we see this ministry model being implemented in Acts
28 where, “Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and
received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God …” (Acts
28:30,31a). It is interesting to note that the book of Acts begins and ends
with “schools” that present the information of the Kingdom. The book
of Acts begins with Jesus launching a school when “He appeared to them
over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.” (Acts
1:3) The last two verses in Acts state, “Paul dwelt two whole years in
his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the
kingdom of God ….” Both Jesus and Paul used the same ministry model.
This model of becoming a student of Jesus’s Kingdom information, then
teaching students the information of the Kingdom, is the binding agent
that holds the content of the book of Acts together. It is the beginning and
the end of the Acts of the disciples. I would argue that this model is the
foundation on which all Kingdom activity was expressed throughout the
New Testament. Without the model, there are to be no expressions of the
Kingdom. Without the model, the best we can do is express parts of the
Kingdom from the carnal realm and into the carnal realm. As mentioned
earlier, these “Kingdom parts” carry a different essence than the Kingdom
and in effect present a watered down version of the Kingdom. The model
Jesus and Paul implemented, I believe, once re-established, will prove to
be the catalyst that continues the legacy Jesus and Paul’s disciples left for
us—the legacy of transforming regions one disciple at a time.
