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The Heaven's Answer Paradigm

What is the Heaven’s Answer paradigm?


It's about understanding your relationship both with the triune God and with all that He has made for you. It’s about the truth that God made you for creation and creation was made for you. It’s about the Church unlimited!

The church is you, living and working in all of creation. Your life, work and worship are key to the divine strategy. It’s about taking a Hebraic understanding of life, work and worship, and equipping each member of the body of Christ to fulfill their (vocation) calling in the five creational spheres of authority and influence. These five spheres – marriage, family, work, tribe and nation – set the creation context for the life, activity and impact of each member of the body of Christ.

Among other things, we do this by discovering the power and purpose of each Christian’s ‘vocational grace motivation’. Scripture says, each one of us has received a specific measure of grace (an underlying motivation) from God, in the form of one or more of the five-fold ministry graces spoken of in Ephesians 4:11 and a sixth ministry grace found in Acts 6:3.  These six being:-
  • apostle – establishing ability
  • prophet – creating ability
  • evangelist – promotional ability
  • pastor – relating ability, teacher – educating ability;  and
  • practical leadership – functioning ability
These ministry graces are designed to help people find their strategic place in the plan of God for their lives, empowering them to accomplish the will of God in all of the work (paid and unpaid) that they do.