The SIAFU Guidebook

Part I : Assembling God’s Warriors

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empowerment. His words are as true today as they were when he spoke them to the apostles nearly two thousand years ago.

Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

~ Matthew 16.16-19

Christ is building his Church, and hell cannot defeat it! It is neither an exaggeration nor a falsehood to declare that “As the church goes, so the fight will go.” When the Church (both global and local) awakens to its true identity as God’s very own community, she will be released to become all she is in order that the kingdom light might be shown in the darkest and most dangerous places on earth.