Helping members of the body of Christ to experience, mature in, and communicate effectively the message of identification with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension in the believer's various spheres of influence.

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Christ as Life, or centered, discipleship is a servant leader (discipler of Christ) who is compelled to voluntarily instruct others in becoming a follower of Christ in Truth and deed. When fronted with lies (truth out of context), the discipler is not timid about reproving, correcting and re-instructing by making use of Divine Truth – the Bible.

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A simple term to describe what the Word defines as the number one problem in life — mankind attempting to function as their own god in the lives of self, others, and even God. This includes suffering with divorce, suicide, eating problems, depression, or any other common problem with the self-life. Most of the time, it falls under the category of Godship -finding ways to fix the fix that God has fixed on you to stop fixing life through self-effort. Our ministry has learned that the act of “playing God” helps us identify the real problem in each of the lives we reach out to. We have also learned that the most common consequence of Godship is “rejection” (Gen. 3:5).

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Rejection is withholding love from self, others, and God. There are two types of rejection: overt and covert. Overt rejection is obvious or known rejection, i.e. “I hate you.” Covert rejection is subtle or unknown rejection, i.e. smiling on the outside while judging on the inside. Both of these forms of rejection are consequences of Godship applied, either by self or by others. Without question, we believe that rejection leads to individuals attempting to find life “externally” (Romans 15:7).

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External/Internal is an individual attempting to gain love, acceptance, and significance from external resources, which is idolatry. Since Godship sets up “self-rule,” the individual works to turn negative externals into positive ones, by making use of self-effort.

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Problems are direct consequences of self-life efforts. God then uses these problems to bring the believer to the end of their own resources, or self-life, in order to create a dependence on Christ’s Life from within. We believe that suffering is the key component to learning obedience to Christ Jesus, who actually lives in the born-again believer. It is these problems that reveal the person’s flesh (Heb. 5:8).

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Flesh exhibits patterns, reactions, and/or sinful actions that reveal the believer’s self-life - trash left behind by the old nature. These fleshly reactions lead the believer to Life (Christ) or death (flesh) decisions. If the believer continues to choose self-life decisions, we believe God will bring this person to the end of himself through consequences formed by their own flesh. This, without question, leads the person to repentance (Luke 9:23).

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Repentance is the process of confessing one’s sins, turning away from the self-life, and returning to a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ from the inside out. This cannot be done effectively unless the Holy Spirit brings revelation to specific areas of the flesh that rise up against Jesus Christ. Once true repentance has occurred, the indwelt Christian can begin to apply their identity in Christ to all of life’s situations and circumstances (Psalm 119:59).

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This is one of the most commonly accept terms used to describe the exchanged life. Since behavior comes from identity, what one believes to be their identity (Christ or self) makes a significant impact on daily living. It is of utmost importance that the indwelt believer places their identity in the message of identification with Christ in His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.

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True righteousness can only be found in the One who is Righteous – Jesus Christ. Once a convert receives Christ into their lives, they become the Righteousness of Christ (2 Cor. 5:21). Self-righteousness is a fleshly and ungodly form of humans mustering up their own rightness before God and man (Rom. 10:3).

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