by Garris Elkins | Nov 20, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Five-fold, Reformation, Revival
Since the publication of my book, The Sound of Reformation, I have been talking to people about their place of ministry. No longer does the phrase “going into the ministry” make any real Kingdom sense if it means in order for someone to engage in a life of ministry...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 17, 2017 | Change, Church, Culture, Evangelism, Reconciliation, Reformation
Refuse to battle people and institutions. The real battle for the soul of a culture is a warfare empowered by love. It is always waged beyond the most visible and heated battle lines drawn by sensitive social issues like cultural diversity, race, gender, sexual...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 17, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Courage, Discipline, Fathers, Five-Fold Ministry, Leadership, Revelation, Teaching, Vision.
A limited, and sometimes shrinking demographic can become your loudest voice of support. Those who want things to remain the same are not always happy with the possibility of change. Many times this group will sense a change is coming and will increase the volume of...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 12, 2017 | Apostle, Church, Culture, Faith, Five-Fold Ministry, Kingdom of God, Miracles, Power, Revival, Spiritual Warfare, Transition
We live in a time of Church history where things are beginning to shake out and shake loose. The controlling grip of assumption, error and unhealthy images of God is being loosened. As this shaking intensifies, three groups will be affected. The first group reminds me...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 6, 2017 | Church, Culture, Death, Deliverance, Fear, Identity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of God, Peace, Redemption, Reformation, Truth
I have been up since 2:00 a.m. After watching the news about the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, my spirit was restless. I needed to get up to pray and write. For a few days something has been on my heart and this morning, I felt it was time to share my...
by Garris Elkins | Nov 1, 2017 | Change, Church, Courage, Culture
In recent months, I have met believers who have been struggling because they felt more comfortable outside the four walls of a traditional Church than inside. When these wanderers are discovered, some fellow believers have been quick to speak words of condemnation,...
