About the Family
a globally DECENTRALIZED family of churches
Fifth Seal is a globally decentralized family of church planters, churches, and frontier missionaries. We function as an apostolic alliance; discipling, equipping and covering those called by Christ to partner with Him in establishing the church He is building (Matt.16:18).
Our commission is to prepare God’s people to display His glory by exalting Jesus’ supreme worth at the end of the age. As a church planting family we are committed to returning to the Church’s first biblical form so that she may function as she did in the beginning, carrying out the discipleship of nations by God’s design.
Moments to Movements
Planting house churches everywhere
MALACHI 1:10-1:11
Seasoned Ephesians 4:11 elders personally disciple emerging leaders called by Christ to transform traditional weekly gatherings into unbridled movements of the Holy Spirit that sweep through neighborhoods and nations with the Gospel of the Kingdom, resulting in new committed Christ exalting communities of biblically ordered disciple-making disciples that mature unto multiplication.
Nothing supernatural happens when we move “big box” church into “little box” church. Unless fundamental assumptions rooted in church tradition are scripturally renewed, what was big simply becomes small, and more of the same religious cycle ensues. There is not a singular man or a method that unleashes movements. Simply meeting in homes rather than a dedicated church building certainly does not catalyze movement.
Movement belongs to the Holy Spirit and comes through disciples who are highly obedient to Jesus, biblically organized. boldly gospel fluent, and motivated to give God’s glory to the only One who is worthy – Jesus Christ. In this, we help those called by Christ carefully lay foundations for Jesus’ church that are unashamedly biblical, irreducibly simple, easily reproducible and unquestionably effective.
Our discipleship for new church planters is ecclesiologicaly restorative and firmly rooted in love for Jesus’ church. We help leaders move from a ‘contain and control’ model motivated by numbers to make a name for ourselves, to the ‘equip and release’ model of the early church purposed to bring glory to Christ alone. This leads to accelerated church multiplications consisting of brand new born again disciples who are highly obedient to Jesus Christ.
“We are a mic-less and stage-less multiplication of new disciples and new testament churches that is unbound by borders, budgets or buildings, collectively allied around obedience to Jesus Christ as Lord.”
“What the church was born in, she will finish in. We are now in a time of transition that when complete, will result not only in the transformation, but a transfiguration of the Bride for the end of the age.”
“We have traded obedience to the cross of Christ for the convenience of a familiar religious system. The religious system is designed to contain and control, rather than equip and release. Almost everything it perpetuates is directly inverted from the commands of Christ and first expression of the church. We must return to what was taught and modeled at first.”
Jesus Alone is Worthy.
Ready to get discipled?
If you are ready to partner with Jesus in the church He is building for the end of the age, let’s connect.
