Building an Apostolic People  ## Metadata - Author: [[John Kingsley Alley]] | [[3. Resources/Authors/John Kingsley Alley|John Kingsley Alley]] - Full Title: Building an Apostolic People - Category: #books - Kindle: [Open in Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CKFT5OK) - Document Tags: [[Faith]] ## Document Notes ## Highlights - Unless we ourselves have the heart that genuinely walks in relationship with others, we are not really living in apostolic grace. ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=166)) - be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. ([Location 281](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=281)) - Note: John Kingsley Alley's "Holy Community" strikes a deep and familiar chord in my soul tonight..... That you may be perfectly united in mind and thought - all should agree, not just some of them. ([Location 296](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=296)) - “…that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. ([Location 308](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=308)) - “There is another anointing, by which leaders perceive community.” To perceive means to be able to apprehend, to have a heart for, and be able to look into, to longingly take hold of, to have a big heart to grasp it, and to have a vision to build it. ([Location 540](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=540)) - we have come to the place where we simply belong to each other. ([Location 610](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=610)) - I have often heard preaching about the need for apostolic power to be restored to the Church. But we were missing the fact that this level of grace and power flows from, or through, community. ([Location 682](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=682)) - In a mutual admiration society, our love and admiration for others is not based on their perfection or performance. It is based upon what is in our heart toward them. ([Location 817](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=817)) - The question is, can the whole congregation love each other? Is there a grace that will change everyone’s heart? ([Location 833](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=833)) - And when the spirit of understanding is given to churches, and the contrary spirit removed, it makes all the difference in how the people walk together and work together. ([Location 884](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=884)) - This passage says ‘spirit’, but what we’re dealing with is the giving of a grace. ([Location 897](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=897)) - And this particular grace, or anointing, is called the Spirit of Understanding ([Location 909](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=909)) - father-son relationship, the unity of the body, city eldership, and community. ([Location 936](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=936)) - But after the day of Pentecost, they did not think that way any longer. ([Location 977](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=977)) - There was a form of community built around and specifically centred on Jesus, but the individualswere still pretty much independent of one another. ([Location 978](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=978)) - Now it was genuine community, because the power they had been given not only established a living connection to the resurrected, ascended Jesus, but also a dynamic, effective heart connection to each other. ([Location 987](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=987)) - all the mighty works of the grace of God, Pentecost always had the one central purpose – to form community; to take people who were not joined together and make them one people. ([Location 1013](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1013)) - taught the baptism of the Spirit inaccurately, for we have been preaching it, as I said before, as an individualistic experience of God. ([Location 1064](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1064)) - True Christianity is based on relationships, with believers being built together and sharing a common life. ([Location 1129](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1129)) - The Lord is bringing the church into maturity, and no church is mature unless it is mature in relationships. ([Location 1131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1131)) - No Christian is spiritually mature unless they are relationally mature. ([Location 1131](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1131)) - If the spirit of Pentecost is in your heart, it will cause you to love your brothers and sisters, and to be one with all the saints. ([Location 1134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1134)) - We will need to preach the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the ongoing evidence of believers being in community. ([Location 1142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1142)) - Creating community requires both right values to be in the heart, and the power of grace to come upon those who believe these values. ([Location 1156](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1156)) - It is not so much what they say they believe; it is what they believe deep down – often their real beliefs are subconscious. ([Location 1176](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1176)) - In seeking to establish ‘community’ amongst believers, we teach such heart values as would cause believers to at least want to love other believers, and want to see these believers love one another. ([Location 1226](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1226)) - Sonship is an attitude of heart, a value system, just as submission itself is also primarily an attitude of heart. ([Location 1232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1232)) - Democracy does not produce community. ([Location 1788](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1788)) - there needed to be not only new wine, but a new wineskin; and both were necessary, ([Location 1814](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1814)) - You must pursue relationships, and pursue a spiritual father, because you will not reap what you do not sow. ([Location 1935](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1935)) - This is supplication – a prayer that is desperate in holding on to God. ([Location 1944](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1944)) - If you want community to develop, and want the Holy Spirit to move upon your people with power, there is no substitute for seeking God. ([Location 1945](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1945)) - We do not give tithes as gifts; we return the tithe to the Lord. ([Location 1980](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=1980)) - You are meant to be a son to a father, therefore sow financially into His life and calling. ([Location 2021](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=2021)) - We might desire to see things done a new way, but still tend to act out of the old ingrained habitual patterns of thinking. ([Location 2077](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00CKFT5OK&location=2077))