[Heaven's Answer] reveals how we might live and breathe in a real hope that goes beyond that of seeing the restoration of apostles, to, as Ben says, the release and deployment of an apostolic company (the church) of grace-filled believers to accomplish their God-given assignments in all of life. 
Ben Gray brings careful insight and powerful revelation to his teaching and exhortation. Heaven’s Answer To Earth’s Dilemma is a passionate wake-up call to the church to embrace necessary change in order to come into all that God has planned for it at this moment of strategic opportunity. 
Ben Gray calls every believer in Christ in our day to recognize and fulfil their God-given vocational calling as kingdom people. I highly recommend Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Dilemma. 
Throughout history the Lord has raised up radical voices of reformation to challenge the church and to shift us out of our complacency. Ben Gray is one of those voices, and I pray that many outside of his native Australia will listen to his clearly prophetic message.
| Heaven's Answer to Earth's Dilemma is about a Grace Revolution |
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Exploring the Hebraic worldview in Heaven’s Answer will reveal to you what it means to be made in God’s image, to be designed, called and empowered to engage God’s good but fallen creation. The present creation is not meant to be written off and annihilated: rather, it is meant to be set free to be and become all that it was meant to be for us (Rom. 8:20-21). Scripture declares that it is our work and our life that will play the key role in liberating this creation from futility to fullness. Heaven’s Answer and the follow-on seminar, Finding Your Vocation 4 Life, are about this exciting grace revolution of liberation that is happening in the earth, one that has the potential to answer the cry of creation. Heaven’s Answer and the Finding Your Vocation 4 Life Seminar, also teach us about the vocational graces we have been given, and by placing these gifts and their operation in the creational setting, will assist in that infinitely important work of fitting the church, the body of Christ, together in creation. As this happens, as Jesus said in Matthew 5:16, our light will shine through our life and good works, with a brightness that will light up the very heavens of God for all the earth to see. Heaven knows the answer to earth’s dilemma. Heaven demands that we, as the body of Christ, take hold of and become that answer to the cry of a waiting creation. The kingdom paradigm expressed through Heaven’s Answer, could best be described as ‘applied theology’, as it ‘earths’ the living out, as individuals and churches, of our vocational calling with very practical insights as to what this grace revolution means in our marriages, families, workplaces, communities and nation. |