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When I tell people that I write today for the church of tomorrow, I’m often asked how I think the church will look in the future. Firstly, I broadly define the church universal as the collective human spirit. The walled model of the church of yesterday is slowly dying to her old image. In my mind, her death has already occurred. Therefore, I write for those who are ready to move beyond the current image of church into a new reality.

No one has a crystal ball, but my books speak directly to future generations who will build and shape the church’s new image in the world. My books invite readers to consider the following ideas:

Three loaves of bread will nourish the church of tomorrow as she continues her homeward journey from the cross to the morning star. The three loaves will come in the form of a clock, a key, and a net. Each loaf of bread will require an unprecedented transfiguration in the minds and hearts of the followers of Jesus. We should welcome the changes that must take place without fear or hesitation, thanking God for guiding the human spirit on our pilgrimage through time.

THE CLOCK: The church of tomorrow will have an age-to-age clock to inform her thinking in addition to humanity’s 24-hour clock. This age-to-age perspective of time will emerge as people learn to connect the little scroll of seven thunders in Revelation 10 to the Creation text of Genesis 1. The resulting clock of seven thunders will offer an anthropological view of biblical history – one that coincides with everything we see in our museums of natural history around the world.

THE KEY: The church of tomorrow will speak learn to speak in a common spiritual tongue. The language of the seven thunders, heard by John of Patmos during his vision of a little scroll relies on the images of Creation embedded within the text of Genesis 1. The resulting key of seven thunders will slowly purify the lips of people’s, nations, languages, and kings thereby encouraging people to stand shoulder to shoulder and speak in a unifying spiritual voice.  

THE NET: church of tomorrow will also teach the art of net-making in order to meet human need in her local neighborhoods. Her new organizational image will reflect the image of the original organization of tribes, the miracle feedings of multitudes, and the 144,000 seen in Revelation 7 and 14. 

That said, the church of tomorrow will cease to be defined as a building or an institution. The church will simply be “a people.” To learn more, click on the links below.