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95 Thesis by Dr. Kluane Spake

On October 31, out of love for the truth, the Priest and Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and lecturer at Wittenberg, nailed his 95 Theses upon the door of the Wittenburg church. These statements stood against the current trends of the church and pronounced truths. The church of today has greatly benefited from Martin Luther’s efforts.

As the Third Day Church , we can now both use and now update his ideas.

We post them on the DOOR of the Church NOW.

1. God is love.

2. He has a great unfolding plan.

3. That plan includes us.

4. His plan is for us to love.

5. His plan is to eternally live in us, in order to express His eternal life through us (2 Cor. 4:10)

6. The redemption of Jesus allows us to participate in His plan.

7. God is always ever present. Now the tabernacle of God is ever with us – Emanuel.

8. Believers are to become conformed and transformed into the image of God.

9. They are to walk in the restored dominion authority of the garden.

10. Jesus is held in the heavenlies until the fulfillment of all things (Acts 3:21). He’s waiting for us to be transformed.

11. Sin caused us to miss the purpose of God, but redemption by the Blood of Jesus causes us to be adopted and to be full heirs of God.

12. Jesus came to this world to inaugurate God’s new redemptive plan for humanity.

13. God’s plan to conform us to His image includes all races, male and female, all ages, and all classes which are equally and highly cherished.

14. Christ died for a total forgiveness of our past and present sins. We are pardoned from our sins because of that inestimable gift of God.

15. Jesus initiated God’s message of Good News (Lu. 2:10 LB).

16. We seek the unfolding Gospel of the power of God’s non-judgmental, non-condemning love and new life.

17. Believers are entrusted with the privilege of enacting God’s mercy and compassion toward one another and the world..

18. Believers are co-crucified with Christ (Rom. 6:6, 11, Col. 3:1-4). We have already died. We don’t need to die to our old man any longer. Wrongly emphasizing our personal sacrifice to need to continually die, denies the power of the resurrection. When Jesus died, we died.

19. Believers are co-buried with Christ (Col. 2:12, Rom. 6:3-4).

20. Believers re co-resurrected with Christ (Col. 3:1, Rom. 6:9).

21. Believers are co-seated in heavenly places with Christ (Eph. 2:5-6).

22. Believers are already made alive together with Christ (Eph. 2:1-2, 1 Cor. 15:23).

23. We are partners with God for His plan concerning every living human being.

24. Jesus offered up the only sacrifice that takes away the sins of the world (Jn. 1:29).

25. Believers are anointed of the Holy Spirit by the miracle power of God to do His work.

26. Jesus established a new covenant of mercy (Jn. 1:17, Heb. 8:8-10).

27. Jesus provides redemption that enables believers to possess or share all that exists only in Jesus.

28. Truth proceeds ongoingly, giving greater accuracy. And through this accuracy, the Spirit of God brings powerful demonstrations.

29. Jesus abolished the law and established a greater commandment (Jn. 13:34). To LOVE others.

30. Christ living in us enables His love-power to reach others with the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

31. Jesus instituted a new priesthood (Heb. 8:6, 12:24, 9:11).

32. Believers are Christ’s body today on earth who image that priesthood.

33. Christ’s priesthood is not Aaronic… He was a Melchedezic priest.

34. The Melchezdic priesthood holds the power of endless life (Heb. 7:16).

35. Believers are a community of priests (1 Pet. 2:5). Jesus made us a priest like Himself. His power was not derived from another man — it’s not Levitical. His priesthood came from the LIFE OF GOD itself. It’s the power that arises out of the life that lives in Him. He gives us HIS power — and that power is after His endless life. Ours is a priesthood “by virtue of an indestructible Life (Wey), … according to the energy of an indissoluble life (Min), But with the power of an imperishable life (Con.), But on the basis of a power flowing from a life that cannot end (Wms), But by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death (Tcnt).

36. Jesus has the power to save us to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25).

37. Jesus has the power to restore the kingdom and all things (Col. 1:20).

38. Believers have the power to draw near God’s presence and fellowship with Him there.

39. Believers have the ability to communicate to others the power of a life within the veil.

40. Before the believer are the ever opened doors (Ps. 118:19, Rev. 22:14).

41. Jesus established total healing for our body, soul, and spirit.

42. Believers are to become whole and have a sound mind and body.

43. Our body is the temple of God. We are to care for our bodies and present our body as a living sacrifice (Rom. 12).

44. Every day is holy and set apart for us.

45. Jesus initiated a new relationship and covenant with God (Je. 32:38-41, 2 Co. 6:16-18).

46. He birthed a new lifestyle for us to imitate (Jn. 1:4, 10:10, 11:25, 14:6, Rom. 5:21, 2 Ti. 1:10, Heb. 10:20, 1Jn. 5:12).

47. Believers become God’s honored representatives on earth.

48. Jesus sat down and said that His work was finished (Heb. 4:3). All things are consummated in Christ.

49. The job of the believer is to incorporate the finished work of the cross, overcoming evil with good, walking in holiness, and becoming a demonstration of His glory.

50. God’s infallible plan for our life is to tell the untold, love the unlovely, heal the hurting, and to activate God’s love and anointing.

51. Satan is a created being who is not able to create life.

52. John 5:19 states: “The whole world is most certainly under the control of the evil one.”

53. But, believers are not to be of this world (James 4:4, 1 Jn. 2:15-18).

54. The Son of God came to earth to destroy the works of the evil one.

55. He finished the work. The enemy is defeated – now. Satan and evil have no jurisdiction over the believer (1 Jn. 2:3, 4:4, 5:18, Rom. 6:14, Col. 1:13).

56. His death enabled each of us to become a “son of God” who can also destroys evil works (1 Jn. 3:8). The power given us to subdue all God’s enemies (Eph. 1:19-23). As He is, so are we in this WORLD (1 Jn. 4:7). All believers have been given Divine authority over all the POWER (dunamis) of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt them (Lk. 10:19). All hell comes to a halt because we are invested with the God-given authority of heaven over the power of the enemy.

57. We can overcome evil with good (Rom. 12:21).

58. At the cross, our LIFE-GIVER, Jesus became the Redemptive Seed that could be planted in our hearts to grow the TREE OF LIFE once again in our garden heart.

59. The POWER of God is the Gospel (Gal 2:16).

60. The Gospel enables people to live in victory above their circumstances.

61. Therefore, the gift of the Holy Spirit is accessible to each believer.

62. God created us for His glory (Is. 43:7).

63. We are to declare His glory among the nations (I Chrn. 16:24). We declare His glory among all people.

64. They shall open their eyes from darkness into light.

65. Our WHOLENESS brings glory to God (Mat. 5:16).

66. God’s holy Word is settled (Ps. 118:99).

67. All things are possible through faith if we only believe (Matt. 19:26, Mk. 10:27).

68. Redemption provides for our health and soundness of mind and body.

69. Redemption provides for our total forgiveness of sin. Redemption gives believers the power to live with a cleansed conscience.

70. We have been given the power to manifest His breathtaking glory on earth.

71. The hatred of the old nature must be replaced with the discovery of being part of the New Creation.

72. We are to ask the Lord of the harvest for laborers and for rain on behalf of all humankind, that they be brought to repentance by the goodness and love of God.

73. We lift up our eyes to see the provision of God. For the Lord will hasten to perform His Word and reveal to His people the abundance of peace, truth, health, prosperity, deliverance, safety, and abundant life.

74. We, the people of God, put on love and walk in absolute trust and confidence of His power, wisdom, and goodness.

75. The Word dwells within us, in all richness.

76. The Spirit of Death has no power over the believer.

77. We are ransomed by His blood, and walk in the Spirit of Life.

78. We don’t need man’s approval, distorted prosperity, self-exaltation, or popularity.

79. Believers do not flinch in sacrifice, hesitate in adversity, negotiate with the enemy, or wallow in the maze of mediocrity.

80. The giving of money should be a free will and generous act of the heart – the believer should not be concerned about “the penalties of sacramental satisfaction” established by man. Any true Christian, whether living or dead, participates in all the blessings of Christ and the church; and this is granted him by God, even without indulgence letters (extracted from a partial quote of Martin Luther). Christians are to be taught that God desires their pure motive and devout lifestyle rather than their wrongly motivated external activities.

81. Jesus is the Head of the Church; that means He is the source of it. All church activities should glorify Him and not a person.

82. God established a pattern for the church and allows certain individuals to hold the responsibility of leadership in love.

83. The leaders of the church were elders.

84. Without proper church leadership there would be lawlessness, anarchy and disorder. (Ju. 21:23, 2 Peter 2:10, James 3:16).

85. Government is a blessing of God giving security and freedom within a God-given framework of order (Heb. 10:19-25).

86. God’s government is not hierarchical. It was never meant to be a ranking of superiority. No hierarchy or position qualifies a person to have any power over another. Even the God-head pictures equality.

87. Leaders are to lead with humility and wisdom.

88. Godly government works as leaders set aside their own preferences and submit to the Lordship of Jesus – in honor preferring one another. The greatest of all are the servants of God’s people.

89. Leaders are to mature and equip the saints, to enable them to (fully) walk in newness of life and inheritance.

90. Every member should mature to fully function according to his/her gift (I Peter 2:5).

91. Continual repentance from sin and selfish motives is available for all of us (Acts. 3:19).

92. God’s people need to work happily and not act big.

93. God’s people need to use their talents to the fullest for the gospel.

94. In God there is only goodness and no shadow nor variance of turning (Jms. 1:17).

95. There is no fear in life or death when we are secure in the Lord’s love.

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Right now, many conservative Christian churches still don’t allow women to preach in their pulpit or participate in governmental leadership. Most Conservative Christians believe that God has ordained the roles of men and women to be different in the Church.

On September 18, 2008, Gospel Magazine (the most widely distributed urban Christian publication in the country) was pulled off the shelves of more than 100 LifeWay Bookstore across America. The bookstores’ owner, the Southern Baptist Convention, said the problem was that the five smiling women on the cover are women church pastors! Other churches still don’t allow women leaders either – i.e. the Catholic Church and several evangelical groups (such as the Presbyterian Church in America still don’t ordain women.

For years, I attended a church that would NOT allow me to speak at a public meeting, preach to a group in my home, teach a Sunday School class to adult men and women, take an offering, introduce a song, or say a public prayer. They were nice people – doing what they believed was right – that “Biblical order” demands that men alone were chosen to lead in Church government authority, and they alone should run the show!

It’s odd that it seems okay to many of these same Conservative Christian types to support Governor Sarah Palin as potential Vice President… when most of them don’t even think that a woman should exercise co-leadership in her marriage, let alone lead her country!

Whether she wins or not, the question is why are people willing to vote for her as Vice President and still think that a woman is not qualified to serve as pastor of their church?

We must ask, IF the Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, is supposed to be “UNDER” her husband and to be submissive to him (as so many theologians claim), then how can she independently lead America? Will her husband actually be making all the decisions? Will McCain be her “covering?” Will she just be some “man’s” puppet or figure-head? Or… maybe her husband will relinquish his authority “over” her, so that she can do her job. Or, perhaps she is well able to stand firmly in her right to serve fully to her capacity?

With almost multiple personalities, the extreme Christian Right seemed ecstatic when Sarah Palin was invited to be on the McCain ticket. That was because she is a Christian! But how can she go along with their expectation to remain subservient,” compliant, accommodating, submissive, and deferential to all men — and still fulfill this assignment of Vice President of this great country?

This continued gender bias is a PRIORITY question for all of Christianity. I know! I write this as a woman pastor who has fought a career-long battle to shatter the “Stained Glass Ceiling” for gender equality. I’ve surveyed hundreds of churches to determine their use of women in leadership – and even though some say that it is okay, they usually don’t implement it. OF course there are numerous pastors who champion women’s rights to lead, but statistically they are few and far between.

And of course, during the last decades, there has been a great rise in successful female pastors, evangelists, Bishops, etc. They have endured in spite of it all.

Hierarchical tradition has long maintained that “Women should keep in their proper place,” or as Martin Luther coined, “A woman’s place is in the home.” That saying is not anywhere in the Scripture, it’s a quote from Luther!

Then there was Calvin, who taught that a woman was created in the image of God… “Though in the second degree.”[i] Calvin was certain that women had absolutely no place of impact in society. Earlier Augustine wrote his theory in De Genesi ad Litteram IX.5, cfVII.3,[1] that said the woman was only to be a helper for childbearing, but in every other case another man would be a better help.

Limiting and prejudicial ideas against women in leadership have endured in various forms for centuries.

We can no longer ignore the fact that thousands upon thousands of educated people flatly reject the Gospel because they refuse to accept these ridiculous kinds of preconceived, prejudicial ideas that barrier abilities and squelch potential of another human being.

In this era of heightened gender awareness and sexual revolution, the church must address this issue of discrimination. That’s why we must re-examine Church history that ledgers continuous biased bigotry and closed mindedness against women in leadership.

Praise God! This truly is a cultural, political, social, and theological dilemma! This issue of equality has long gone fully addressed. Sure… some of us women are labeled “exceptions,” but… we still don’t get invited to play golf with the guys!

The doors of full opportunity within the Church have been generally closed to most women. Often, a woman can have ten times the capability as a man, and not be given full recognition. Trust me when I say that even slightly egalitarian ideas are often labeled by many as feminist or a “Jezebel spirit!” If a woman should happen to have ministry success, it is usually met with condescending disapproval and even hostility. Secret subterfuge. Indifference. Or, at best, nuances of patronization.

Thankfully, Jesus was the ultimate rebel! He defended women, revealed truths to them that He had not told another, and appeared to them first after He died. The way He valued women was a concept that shook that culture to the heart. Paul insisted in Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.” This is a core-essential emphasis. No human being is excluded from service to God.[2]

The question is, can women make independent Church Leadership decisions regardless of their reproductive organs?

Win or not, Govorner Sarah confronts the Church with a great predicament! We are being forced to confront long held standards. Church leaders at large must re-evaluate their staunch posturing against sincere and capable women leading.

If Sarah Palin is elected Vice President, will she (as a Christian leader and a political leader) be able to preach in a Southern Baptist pulpit? Or, in your church? WHAT? Are you open to women preaching in the pulpit? Leading governmentally?

Palin could potentially become President of the United States of America – and have authority over EVERY SINGLE PERSON in America (male and female). Does that mean that God can equally use both women and men in society, church, and home?

Lord God… we excitedly enjoy watching this unfolding reformation of change.

By Dr. Kluane Spake www.kluane.org

You Might NOT Be Part of the Third Day Church - IF…

You really believe they drank Welch’s grape juice at the Wedding in Cana.

Your love to sing about being the wretch in “Amazing Grace”

Your definition of “fellowship” always involves cake and ice-cream (well maybe that one is true)

You still practice daily hopping so that you won’t miss the Great Escape.

You pray and prophecy only in King James English.

You rigidly hold onto old paradigms rather than “move with the Cloud” of present Truth.

You think worship is only music.

All your songs are endless, endlessssssssssssly slow, never endddding songs…

You set aside all discernment, in trade for what you hope is revival.

You settle on being poor and sick in order to be more “spiritual.”

You think the Saints Movement means that all leadership is wrong, bad, ignorant, and replaceable.

You believe that powerful prayers are only effective when screaming.

You think the devil is actually to blame for all your unfortunate circumstances and bad choices.

You practice Spiritual Warfare – which means that YOU must SHOUT until the Devil is defeated (even though that defeat was what Jesus already accomplished)!

You are more concerned with the continuous self-preoccupation of dying to self rather than Rising to the Newness of LIFE and bringing forth Abundant LIFE!

You think that great sermons are always long, loud, sweaty, and super-hyped up!

You think God’s presence only manifests as mystic, weird, and super-spiritual.

You teach that “The secret of success in God” is to always get totally “wacked out” in the Spirit!

You eat pizza and wake up knowing for sure that you are called to preach.

Dr. Kluane Spake

www.kluane.org – spake@mindspring.com

Are there modern-day apostles?

Acts 3:21 assures us that before Jesus comes again, a reformation and restoration will happen. This promised event will restore truths lost during the Dark Ages.

Over the years, we see how God has begun to restore major Scriptural truths. Several important truths that were lost have now been revealed. For example, “justification by faith” was reinstated by Martin Luther. This idea was first met as heretical. Now, today, everyone accepts this truth without question.

Did God restore the office of the Apostle? If so, what do they do? Who are they?

Ephesians 4:11-13 tells us that God gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. During this last fifty years, a great restoration of some of these Gift Offices has increased.

It was not difficult to embrace the evangelist, or the pastor/teacher. But… the prophet and the apostle have caused considerable debate. However, we can’t just accept three of these leadership offices without the others. Jesus Himself was the fullness of all these Gift Offices.

We may ask ourselves, “Why does God want to restore these Leadership offices?”

The following verse in Ephesians 4 tells us this reason: “to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.”

These five leadership gifts were not simply given to do the work of the ministry, but to enable God’s people to do the work of the ministry.

Many say this era is over… however, verse 13 clearly shows us the required time frame for this kind of leadership: “UNTIL we all reach UNITY in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and BECOME MATURE, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

Well, obviously this “UNTIL” has not yet happened! The assignment of the Third Day Church is to bring forth the unity of faith or the knowledge of the Son. The Body MUST become mature. The Body Must attain the WHOLE measure of the fullness of Christ.

This leadership model did not end with the first century church! Scriptures never tell us that leaders were temporary or should end before this “UNTIL” was accomplished.

The apostle Paul spoke of “pressing on” to full maturity in the faith (Phil. 3:12-14), and not remaining as “infants, tossed back and forth” by the waves of life (Eph. 4:14). Because God values all of our parts equally, He gives us Apostolic leaders to bring growth and adulthood.

The Bible a never limits the number of Apostles to twelve! I Corinthians 15 (see also 15:5-7) states that after the resurrection, Jesus appeared to the twelve and then also to all the apostles (*** enlarge). This clearly shows us that that there were more apostles than the original twelve.

My soon to be released book on Apostolic Authority goes into detail here about these other apostles, such as Timothy, Barnabas, Junia, Andronicus, Apollos, Epaphroditus, James the brother of Jesus, Matthias, Mary Magdalene, Paul, Silas, and others.

Yes. The original twelve were singled out because they learned directly from Jesus and had on the spot training. They also saw Him as the Resurrected Lord. Others also saw Jesus Resurrected.

The Scriptures clearly warn us about “false apostles.” But, it doesn’t warn about subsequent apostles. This is a huge study in itself.

* What is an apostle?

* Why are they important to us now?

* What is their responsibility?

* How do modern-day apostles function properly?

* What do they do today?

* How do they accomplish their assignment?

The NUMBER ONE problem in the church today is this issue of proper leadership and government.

There is no subject in the church or the world more controversial than who (if anyone) should be in authority – and what should they do!

Because of the controversy about authority, this subject is usually avoided. But now, because of escalating times, there is a hastening necessity for us to think Biblically and to redefine the church in Biblical terms.

For the most part, proper Godly leadership seems to be missing from most churches.

Statistically, there is a decline:

• In church attendance.
• In fervor and dedication.
• In overall morality
• And a decline in the miraculous.

Effective apostles must emerge in this hour to recognize the issues, solve the problems, and discover God GENUINELY wants to develop His Church in this century.

The Lord waits for apostolic leaders to establish our authority IN HIM and restore His INTENTION and plan upon this earth. He waits for the BODY:

1. To come into unity (Jn. 17).

2. To have the knowledge of the Son

3. To speak forth the truth in love.

4. To be no longer children but mature (teleios) unto the Perfect Man.

5. To become the Holy temple where God can rest and dwell.

6. To come to the measure and stature of Christ.

7. To expand His Kingdom until the earth fills with His Glory.

Please visit our website www.kluane.org for more material about Apostolic Authority!

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