The ministry team at Southern Cross are a dedicated team of apostolic leaders whose purposes in God are to build and equip the Saints of God for the work of the ministry. We function as a team working together according to our gifting for the perfecting of the saints, until we all come to the fullness of the Son of God, in the unity of the faith. (Eph 4:11-16)
If you ask me who I am, I would simply say that I’m the Lords fool, His Bondservant, Lidia’s husband, John & Alaines son & the servant of all. I’m humbled to be able to continue the mission and vision given to my spiritual parents John & Alaine 25 years ago.
For those who don’t know me, all that I do, and all that I am is but by the grace of God. I am his bondservant, set apart in these last days for His good pleasure so that the work of His Spirit and the work of His Word be made manifest in His Church.
Today I have a clear understanding of whom I am in Christ and a clear understanding of the mission and vision that grips my heart but this was not originally so.
For some reason the Lord chose me in these days to manifest His purposes and glory, He chose me not because of intellect, strength or wisdom but because He takes the foolish things of the world to confound the wisdom of the wise. Why does he do this? So that no man would glory in His presence.
Jesus Christ on March 17th 1996 saved me and then within a short time I was baptised in His Holy Spirit and our Lord himself appeared to me in a vision setting me free from the works of the enemy and then gave me a vision of what He’s going to do in these last days.
Yet, I didn’t fully understand that in His foreknowledge and wisdom He would take me on a journey through His church and would use the school of life to teach me and train me in all things, so that the Word of God by the Spirit of God would become more than just words on a page and more than just accumulated knowledge. They became life giving truth, words with power to set the captive free, hope for a hurting heart, healing for a struggling mind and for a broken body. His word is alive and real and I through His mercy have been made alive and equipped by and through His Spirit.
Dear friends, there is a fire in my bones and a vision in my heart that compels me to walk forward and see His church brought back to the biblical moorings of scripture. To see the walls that seperate His house removed and to see the bride of Christ prepared so that it would be presented to the bridegroom on that great and wonderful day without spot and blemish.
I believe our Lord desires to establish again a new testament configured church which we call an apostolically configured church. This has been revealed to us in the book of Acts and further reinforced by Paul through his epistles as a wise master builder.
The scriptures reveal to us that a biblical new testament church is made up of a healthy community united in the cause of Christ. A community that is edified and equipped in the words, works and ways of Jesus Christ. This is the community that the Lord adds too, as He sees fit and it becomes the community of believers that sees others raised up and sent out into the work of the Lord for their lives and for His glory.
Therefore, Let us be wise master builders, faithfully teaching the principles and precepts of the Kingdom of Heaven, making disciples of all nations, equipping the saints for the work of the ministry, raising up ambassadors to the King and the Kingdom, influencing and infiltrating the spheres around us, in the church and in the marketplace.
Together in His Kingdom,
David Kranjec
Sasha and I became Christians in our twenties. Jesus got a hold of my life while I was in seminary. It was a radical salvation that incorporated the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. The seminary held a cessationist stance and did not condone speaking in tongues; so, when revival broke out on campus, it created such controversy that I was excommunicated. Thus began a great adventure that continues to this day.
Currently, Sasha and I are leading Presence Church in Port Noarlunga, South Australia. It is a church plant! God has called us to play our part in the Great Commission through planting churches and have started well over fifty churches in Australia and other nations of the world, including New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, USA, Mexico, Great Britain, to name a few. We are convinced planting churches is by far the most effective way of discipling the nations and advancing God’s Kingdom in the world.
This, of course begs the question: What kind of church should we be planting? Doing arises from being! We cannot do anything worthwhile in the world unless we experience the necessary change that emerges from a deep, solid, consistent relationship with Jesus. Our passion for Jesus feeds directly into how we build the church: We resolve to “know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified!”(1 Corinthians 2:2) We don’t know Jesus in a worldly way, in a natural, scientific, investigative, scrutinising, cerebral, external, theatrical, entertaining kind of way; nor do we know Him in a romantic, sentimental, emotional, exciting, tender way. The Sentimental approach is only good for a Mills & Boon Christianity with a Fabio Christ figure, while the rational, pragmatic approach is fine for building consecrated museums and religious funeral parlours for the frozen chosen; however, neither hold substance when we need answers for life. The vision of Jesus is very different to how the world portrays Christ, for He is Lord! When He comes to us and opens our eyes, we see Him as He is. We behold the Lord of the universe, a Lord who presides over this world, and in Whom reside all the answers to our need. It is our vision of Jesus that determines the churches we plant and build.
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