WHO WE ARE
A globally decentralized family of house churches, frontier missionaries, and houses of prayer* with no headquarters but Heaven and no king but Christ.
*Houses of prayer for Fifth Seal are dedicated prayer meetings of living stones gathered in living rooms across the nations given to intercession and prayer contending for the promises of God for their neighborhoods, cities and nations. The houses of prayer we equip are literal everyday ordinary houses which host dedicated prayer meetings.
WHAT WE DO
Equip, release, and journey with those called by Christ to begin new disciple making house churches empowered by the Holy Spirit.
WHY WE DO IT
For the glory of Jesus’ name and the coming of His Kingdom.
COMMISSIONED BY CHRIST TO
“Prepare God’s People to Exalt the Supreme Worth of Jesus at the End of the Age.”
FORERUNNERS OF THE FIFTH SEAL
JESUS BEGAN HIS CHURCH WITH THE END IN MIND
FOREVER FORWARD
Fifth Seal is a newly forming decentralized church for church planters. We function as an apostolic alliance covering and equipping those called by Christ to partner with Him in the church He is building (Matt.16:18). As an alliance 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 discipleship by God’s design. It has been our experience in the nations that this results in true apostolic Kingdom advancement. In other words, 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 (Jn. 14:15, Mt. 28:19-20).
Moments to Movements
We disciple Kingdom leaders called by Christ to transform weekly moments of worship 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. We equip a shift from the predominant ‘control and contain’ model driven by numbers to procure “church growth,” to an ‘equip and release’ model driven by obedience to Christ’s commands leading to church multiplications.
This is a transition from information-based discipleship revolving around church attendance, to obedience-based discipleship flowing from New Covenant communities of praying, biblically ordered disciple-making disciples who are fluent in the Gospel. We are boldly committed to moving the Gospel of the Kingdom forward in obedience to Christ no matter what pandemics, persecutions or global privations come before Jesus returns (Rev. 12:11).
It is our experience that only the Holy Spirit can create authentic movements of God. It is not a man or a method that births movements of God resulting in lasting fruit. Genuine movement of the Holy Spirit occurs as we hear and obey Jesus’ voice while daily abiding in Him. Simply put, Jesus builds His church as we obey His commands. Strategy comes from and belongs to Christ while obedience belongs to us. If we cannot hear Him, how can we obey Him (John 10:27)?
Our big picture is to seed sustainable Marantha movements of disciple-making disciples resulting in the multiplication of simple autonomous New Covenant churches prepared to exalt the supreme worth of Jesus Christ in the global harvest at the end of the age (Mat. 24:14).
Truly Decentralized
Fifth Seal is structured as a truly decentralized yet deeply connected church for church planters. As an alliance of emerging churches we are called to establish house church networks, as well as houses of prayer, erected of living stones in everyday living rooms from first-world neighborhoods to the final frontiers of the Great Commission (Mal 1:11). Therefore, we exist as a globally decentralized family of house movements scattered throughout the nations with no epicenter but Heaven and no head but Christ.
In this intentional decentralization, we are biblically ordered and led by well seasoned and established Christ called and qualified Ephesians 4:11-12 elders. Fifth Seal exists to equip and release Holy Spirit appointed disciple-making leaders to intimately know, hear, and obey Jesus in all things, at all times, and in all places. In this positioning our disciple-making church planters partner with the King in the church He is building for the end of the age (Acts 20:28).
A Living Prototype
With this in mind, our immediate call is to return to what was modeled at first and establish a living prototype of His temple of living stones in all nations. Church history indicates people do not replicate messages, they replicate models. In this, we are committed to laying foundations that are unashamedly biblical, irreducibly simple, easily reproducible and unquestionably effective in obeying the commands of Christ, now and in the seasons to come.
Bound by His blood and glory, may we labor together as His family in unwavering love and devotion in full pursuit of the full number of Gentiles so that the partial hardening of Israel’s heart may be removed. He alone is worthy!
Maranatha, Lord Jesus.
