The Vision & Practice of God's Eternal Purpose

Book excerpt: This booklet is entitled: The Vision and Practice of God's Eternal Purpose. It is the first in a series of five booklets taken from Henry Hon's first book in his Trilogy entitled: ONE EKKLESIA. This booklet will contain chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of ONE EKKLESIA. The Eternal Plan and Purpose of God - in gathering a people for His Name - was amplified by Jesus in Mathew 16:18 when He declared: "I will build My EKKLESIA and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Just what did Jesus mean by this revelatory statement after Peter declared that Jesus was the Christ, the anointed One, the Son of the Living God? This initial introduction to Ecclesiology will transform the way Christians view their calling and witness in today's world. Never has there been a time--at the climax of this age--when clarity on this topic is so prophetically essential. Scores of "distractions" abound--but in the end, God's people must affirm their "common faith and salvation" is the very essence of His Ekklesia--and in so doing, and living it out, the very Gates of Hades shall not prevail against such a VISION and PRACTICE of His EKKLESIA!