I have a good friend from Canada who wrote the foreword to my book, Heavens’ Answer to Earth’s Dilemma, his name is Alistair Petrie. Alistair has listed nine ‘shifts’ happening in the Body of Christ worldwide.

He believes we are coming through an amazing transition into what he calls, the last day’s church. There are no maps to chart its course, no special strategic mission statements or working models to set its outcomes. It will instead be governed by our relationship to the Lord of the Church and each other.

In this blog I would like to share with you his nine observations. Consider them and see if you agree with Alistair’s observations.

1. The first one is, that Christianity is shifting from the ‘head’ to the ‘heart’. Being "in love with Jesus" is replacing doctrinal statements as the distinctive trait of Christians in the end times church.

2. The Body of Christ is becoming more and more based on relationships rather than organization or programmatic ministry forms. Where friendship is more important than membership.

3. That true spiritual leadership will operate through honour rather than control.

4. God's love anointing (His presence and power in us) will replace the spiritual performance mentality (i.e. my ability in the spirit) as the source of Christian life, ministry and mission.

5. The Great Commission - His kingdom coming in everyday life, is replacing the denominational or organizational "mission statement" as the believer’s goal. Where many are now realizing that God is not obligated to our mission statements, but He always backs up His!

6. Christians are finding their individual ministries – their place and shape in spiritual "mini movements". These movements are becoming more and more, the frontline mission of the Kingdom of God. That we have entered into what many call, the ‘nameless, faceless revival’, that has been prophesied about for so long.

7. Local churches that facilitate these mini-movements will be blessed and will flourish. The vision will be "taking the Kingdom out" to change the world, rather than "bringing the people in" to grow the local church.

8. The end times church will "use buildings and organizations and have events", but that it will never again serve these idols. Only Jesus Christ is Lord.

9. Christians again understand "Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand" and communicate it with prophetic relevance and deliberate intent everywhere.