It is evident from so many articles written by church leaders over the last few years that God has brought the church to the covenant crossroad. His work of restoration has begun in this new apostolic season and it’s exciting to see God lay out our part in this transition.

God’s judgment upon the church is evident and hearts are being stirred. As ministers are being awakened, questions are being asked.

I read this recently, “Is the church… at a crossroads when it comes to fulfilling its God given role? It’s a question we all need to meditate on and try to answer from our own perspective. The answer lies in what we, as individuals, and the body of people as a collective, the church, have been doing to ensure that the church fulfills its role.”

This stirring of the heart and searching for answers is typical. And while it might seem like this message is coming from an honest heart, we’re going to open up how God is calling Christian leadership to give an account of this habit to ask and answer their own questions, rather than consent to His invitation to transition to His covenant.

In 1984 Jesus gave Apostle Eric vonAnderseck an apostolic tour of the broken body of Christ. In his lesson, “The Making of an Apostle”, Apostle Eric gets into what he saw and what Jesus said to him as He explained the entrenched habit of ministers to lay the groundwork for change in their own questions and answers.

Instead of bringing liberty, ministry leaders have kept the church in bondage and sent believers onto another path with many revival messages that have wearied and confused those whom God is calling to Him.

This insight is such a breakaway point that God’s perspective is easily seen and taken on. It’s important to open this up in the same way that Jesus gave it, so let’s get into this visitation in Apostle Eric’s own words:

This vision was also remarkably clear and vivid, and as I said earlier, it was not something I imagined, or dreamed up, or envisioned. I saw Jesus dressed as an ordinary man in our times walking the streets of a modern city of our time. He was not dressed in Galilean robes and sandals as people usually think of when they picture Jesus, so of course, no one recognized Him…

Jesus again emphasized that He was revealing the corrupt state of the current church body, which includes all the various current ministry heads and those who came before them.

As I said earlier, this includes the pastoral ministry, the false prophetic movement, TV evangelists, and all Christian leadership platforms – all ministries that came out of the Jesus Movement and those who claimed earlier reform movements and all movements in-between. They have corrupted their way before the Lord of glory.

They were NOT corrupted by moral failures, or by misappropriating funds, or any other scandal as some claim, but they corrupted the way of Jesus’ covenant and used their own record (the nature of man) as building material for the church.

I began to travail heavily in the Spirit at what I saw.

Jesus walked into a store and I walked in with Him… Jesus approached a man behind the counter. The man rudely said to Jesus, ‘It will cost you 25 cents just to ask me a question and 50 cents to get an answer.

Apostle Eric goes on in his teaching:

This is quite an extraordinary revelation about how ministers in the fake church body build their own foundations on commonly asked questions that center on how people struggle with themselves, their experiences with past wounds, their yearning to live right, and their seeking heart for purpose.

Corrupt ministers use the condition of man as the bedrock and cornerstone of their faith to create their own doctrine(s) and truth(s), driving faith with these questions, while promising that their answers will give hope and victory, and release God’s deliverance and power.

This false foundation is all about building better through lines and sight lines to man’s fallen nature by presenting a series of questions and answers that keeps believers blissfully ignorant and blind. They had grown accustomed to seeing the fake Jesus play out in their imagination, and now Jesus is coming in the fulness of His covenant (as He always was) but they don’t recognize Him.

That’s a rather large quote and I encourage you to get into the lesson, “The Making of an Apostle” and learn more about God’s time of restoration. The church is at the covenant crossroad and decisions are being made.

Going back to the vision that Apostle Eric received, if we think about the man behind the counter who charged Jesus for each question and extorted Him further to get an answer, the Lord’s chastisement upon ministry leaders is clear. Questions don’t create doctrine. Jesus gives doctrine to the church through His living apostles.

1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

In this verse Apostle Paul brings out that it is not man’s place to instruct God. God’s mind has already been manifested through Jesus’ covenant terms, and Apostle Paul points out that being thus instructed, “we” (referring to the true living apostles of Jesus Christ) have the mind of Christ.

God makes it clear that believers need living apostles to teach them to gain understanding of what God requires from them and that the church needs living apostles to direct the flock of Jesus Christ according to His perspective.

Apostle Paul begins his epistles making his calling known to inform believers that the calling belongs to Jesus. In other words, “I come with the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant and I come in His name rather than my own.”

Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

1 Timothy 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, Apostle James, and Apostle John equipped the saints with the same covenant foundation and spiritual tools according to the commandment of God, meaning that God set the terms for our contact with Jesus. This foundation (blueprint/pattern) of truth was set in the heart of each saint, making it possible for them to meet God’s expectation perfectly.

Going back to the original question this minister asked, “Is the church at a crossroads when it comes to fulfilling its God given role? Yes, the crossroad of covenant is where decisions are being weighed.

Apostles are now equipping the saints with Jesus’ covenant knowledge to ensure that each believer is knowledgeable of the terms God set for our contact with Him and how He designed our reciprocation. God set apostles in the church to ensure that we are functioning with the spiritual tools of Christ that allows Him to fulfill His design in us.

Jesus, in his 1984 visitation, revealed the reason for the mass confusion in the church today. It is because of a lack of the knowledge of Jesus’ covenant and it is because of this blindness that the church is at the covenant crossroad.

This is the turning point for the church.

Ministers and pastors are each making their own personal decisions about the covenant door God has opened. Will you continue on in the same diverse ways, drawing from your own questions and offering a host of conflicting answers, or will you listen to the voice of God through His chosen apostolic steward to whom God has already transformed His church through covenant.

So why would ministers resist Jesus in the crossroad to covenant?

Simply because – as it was with the scholars and religious leaders in Jesus’ time, the Pharisees and Sadducees for example – Jesus’ transition did not meet their expectation and so history is repeating itself. Ministers still stuck in darkness find it hard to abandon what they have built up to now.

In God’s time of renewal (the Second 8th Week), God has restored the apostolic calling to the church to bring believers out of the chaos that resides in darkness. To reorient faith again to the covenant of Jesus Christ, God has equipped and tasked His apostolic stewardship to renew believers with all that He placed in Jesus’ covenant.

Join us in the study The Making of an Apostle to learn more about God’s renewal.