What ARE New Covenant Realities??

We had an incredible week here at G42 with Ted Hanson, a Pastor and Prophet in the U.S. When Ted comes it’s like a wind of words comes sweeping into your ears and heart. You don’t quite know where those words are coming from. When you try to grasp them only with your thoughts and mind, you become quite exhausted. But if your heart and spirit are like a windmill- constantly in motion and available to move where the wind blows- you will find the motion of love and mystery combining in you to produce power.

As we sat in Ted’s presence this week, he talked about Old Covenant and New Covenant. Since Jesus there has been an availability to mankind of living in the New Covenant. However, this new covenant is not like the Old Covenant. It is completely new in its DNA and make up. While in class, we talked about some of the differences between Old Covenant and New Covenant. I would like to present some of these differences to you. But before I do that, I will give you two quotes that were some of my favorite from this week.

“He came to get heaven into your hell to transform your hell so that you can be heaven in the midst of the hell of earth.”

AND

“You cannot despise structures.

You must transform them.

You become what’s working in the midst of what’s NOT working so that it can work.”

          Old Covenant                                                               

~ Knowing what to DO                    

~Obedience to the Book            

~Right and Wrong             

~ What you DO determines who you ARE          

~Information (knowledge)        

~Discipline (for actions)        

~Go to church           

~ Discipleship- take them by the hand and lead them    

      New Covenant

~Being empowered to BE  

~Obedience to the Voice

~ Life and Death

~Who you ARE determines what you DO

~Intimacy (Knowing and being known)

~Discipline (for attitudes)

~You ARE the church when Christ is IN you

~Discipleship- Activate THEM to lead 

So this is a piece of what my week was like. I walked away feeling encouraged to be transformed by the New Covenant instead of attempting to conform myself to the rules of the Old Covenant.