This Article Series by Apostle Eric vonAnderseck spearheads the restoration of the new covenant and offers many transitional shifts and challenges. Apostle Eric will also confront the many paradoxal faith systems that were introduced by various ministers, as he thus provides contrast to bring distinction to Christ.

The Christian faith is defined by covenant. It’s easy to think that somehow faith crisis is your fault, that you must have done something wrong along the way for your relationship with God to have failed to mature and to have failed to experience the spiritual transformation God wants for you.

But when thousands of people share the same struggle and have gone through the same thing, and when ministers come forward to speak candidly about faith crisis, for the first time you can know that this is not your fault. It’s not so much that you did something wrong, but that you didn’t have the right covenant knowledge.

There’s a long line of pastors and ministry leaders who have finally come forward to say what you’ve been saying all along, that lives are not being transformed.

In the 2005 Christianity Today International/Leadership Journal, Pastor Zander is quoted as saying: “As pastors we’re doing what we’ve been told, but we’re preaching a very narrow gospel. We’ve been throwing a lot of seed, but it’s not taking root, it’s not producing fruit. We are not seeing people’s lives transformed. There is a growing sense of failure among the church leaders I talk with, and we are looking for something more meaningful.” [Retrieved August 16, 2005 at http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2005/003/2.20.html]

This timeless statement speaks of ministry leaders in search of new methods to teach people about God’s Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation.

As a believer in Jesus Christ, your focus is on God’s promise of Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation. When that doesn’t take place, it isn’t long before you’re looking for something new.

The new covenant is obviously not a new method to God, but the way in which God has separated the new covenant from the old covenant to direct your faith toward Jesus Christ may be new to you.

You might have heard about the new covenant and might have said, “We are the Lord’s covenant people”, but if you have never learned about the new covenant terms, stewardship, tools, or priesthood, then this little pocket of ignorance makes the covenant void or inactive for you.

In addition to the lack of proper education about grace, most of a person’s problems with crisis of faith can be traced back to a covenant crossroad. When new knowledge and new methods are God’s marching orders for the church today, then His call is to transition into the new covenant.

God challenges ministers today who strayed from Jesus’ covenant in that same voice as Jeremiah who contended with those who broke away from Moses’ covenant.

Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

God’s challenge is the same for ministers today:

1. If you forsake Jesus’ covenant terms and tools, you forsake God’s fountain of life.

2. Writing books about Jesus, about scripture, and about living the Christian life is to create your own broken cistern that cannot hold the water of God’s grace.

It is only when true apostles teach the doctrine of Christ that truth is placed into the right context of the new covenant Jesus came to give us in His name. Truth is again free to function as God planned, to fulfill His purpose in you and through you.

Hebrews 10:9
“Then said He, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, He taketh away the first [covenant], that He may establish the second [covenant].”

Did you know that God takes ownership of your soul when you enter into a covenant relationship with Him? Did you know that God does not accept you the way you are? He accepts you on the terms of His covenant for which Jesus shed His blood.

When God restored the apostles’ calling and foundation of truth, He restored the path of the new covenant, which Jesus gave to His apostles to give to the church.