Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma is one of the best I’ve ever read concerning the great reformation that has started to touch the church worldwide. This is an important book for all to read, especially church and marketplace leaders. 
Ben Gray has written an excellent book that helps renovate our ideas of what church is and how we were designed to engage in society … Here is an apostolic vision that points the way to a more fruitful future by grounding us in a more faithful past. 
Ben Gray is asking important questions about the relevancy of the church as it is currently structured and mobilized in the 21st century. What is the church? How should it look NOW? I loved his fresh and exciting approach to these important questions. 
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| Heaven's Answer |
Heaven's Answer to Earth's Dilemma is an apostolic vision that points the way to a more fruitful and creative future for the people of God. It gives us insight and understanding into many issues facing the people of God today, bringing clarity to understanding a person's vocational calling.
The first part is designed to introduce the reader to the Hebraic vision of the church in all of creation. The second part looks at the divine strategy that God has put in place for this creational church. The third part considers ways to train, equip, and release the people of God, the church, into their divine calling and eternal inheritance in all society and creation.
In Depth Heaven’s Answer is divided into three sections:
Foreword: By Rev Dr Alistair P Petrie This book is an astonishing navigational tool enabling us to understand the history of the church – both past and present. It gives us insight and understanding into many issues that are normally complex and at times quite contentious. However, it also enables us to chart our preparations for the remaining years before the return of the Bridegroom. I sincerely believe this is a must-read tool for everyone who is serious about end-time issues and who wants to respond to the warnings of Matthew 24 and 25 with competence and diligence. Rarely have I come across one book that covers such a vast array of subjects with prophetic insight and pragmatic direction. It will challenge every serious reader in his or her worldview. It will challenge us all in the way we understand and practice ‘church’. The use of such terms as ‘Platonic virus’ and our being called ‘image-bearers’ are in themselves expressions that require honest and serious attention. Our planet is plagued with humanism and deism, but at the same time is crying out for answers and hope. All spheres of society are suffering and it is at times hard to find anything that hints of ‘good news”. Our own ministry has researched several notable criteria that tell of a coming move of God that is unlike anything ever experienced since the days of the early church. The ‘signs’ are all in place and we are about to enter the most challenging era ever faced by the people of God. The virus of Platonic thinking is endemic within the church today. By and large we are still separating the sacred from the secular – but at the same time God is challenging us with His worldview – to think with His mind and to adjust our ways of addressing the issues of the day – but from His perspective. There is hope! Amazing hope! The pages in Heaven’s Answer To Earth’s Dilemma will tell you why. As I said to my wife when I re-read the pages of the manuscript one more time – ‘I wish I had written this!’ We desperately need tools for this age! I believe Ben Gray has responded to this need and out of his many years of experience in all aspects of life has masterfully bridged the chasm between the sacred and the secular. His book has brought the two together in a manner that simply makes profound sense, and at the same time equips us with a road map for the future. Ben takes us on a well-thought-out journey spanning both millennia of history and worldview issues in a gripping and contagious manner – leading us directly to our present-day challenge, which is explained within his five creational spheres of authority and influence. There are sound and Scriptural reasons given that explain why things are the way they are today both within church and the rest of society. This book needs to be read several times to catch the depth of the Holy Spirit who wants to teach those who are willing to ask the right questions – and then to fight the right battles! It is written with humility and transparency, but also with a cry of desperation that the body of Christ will respond correctly and courageously in these remaining years before God’s eternal plan for humanity is fulfilled. Time is running out! We need to respond – we must respond! I believe this book has a divine cohesiveness that will draw together the hopes and plans of humanity, and submit them before the Living God Himself who will then give us revelation and insight that will prepare us and accelerate us into the final frontier with vision, excitement, anticipation, and direction. Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma, undoubtedly, is a tool for today that I encourage every serious Christian to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest! Open the pages and prepare for an amazing journey! Rev. Dr. Alistair P. Petrie
Executive Director Partnership Ministries, Canada www.partnershipministries.org
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