EFN Monthly Newsletter

"Behold, I will do something new!" — Isaiah 43:19

A new day has dawned for the Church that Jesus is building!

• New Revelation has been released from Heaven!
• Revelation produces Revolution!
• The Revolution has begun!

The Head of the Church, Jesus Christ, in this hour is calling the Church into a new dimension of the Spirit. The gateway into that new dimension of the Spirit is a "new" ministry model. It is "new" in the natural realm, in that it is a new paradigm to many existing churches. Though, it certainly is not new in the Spirit realm, since it is the ministry model that has always been prescribed by God in His Word for the building of the Church Jesus is building (Mat. 16:18). We call that new paradigm, The Ephesians Four Ministry Model, which is delineated in the Fourth Chapter of the Ephesians Epistle.

A major part of the purposes and plans of God now revealed to the Church is a mandate that the Church begin to embrace and pursue The Ephesians Four Ministry Model.

The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is irrefutably and unequivocally the greatest "church growth" paradigm and principle ever known or revealed.

The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is the original "purpose-driven" paradigm that overshadows by a million light years all others.

The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is a ministry model in which all the Fivefold Ministry Offices are functioning and flowing together in concinnity (individual parts working together harmoniously in concerted effort as a whole) in and unto the local church to accomplish the true, unfathomable Purposes and Plans of God for His Eternal Bride through all the ages revealed in the Word of God — that is, the ongoing Ministry of Jesus on the Earth.

The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is the ministry model that Jesus, the eternal and exalted Head of the Church, enacted and activated as He was ascending back into Heaven from whence He had come to sit down at the right hand of God on His Throne of Sovereignty, having purchased and redeemed His Bride through the shedding of His own blood and sanctifying Her through the Church Age by the washing of the Water of the Spirit to become His Eternal Co-Sovereign Companion.

In sum, the paradigm or model Christ as the Head of the Church has established and enacted — The Ephesians Four Ministry Model — is one in which He has anointed and appointed special surrogates; namely, persons operating in spiritual functions of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers — aka, Fivefold Ministry Offices — to "equip the saints for the work of the ministry" unto the end of "the building up of the body of Christ — to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" Himself.

This is the purpose, the plan, the paradigm, that the "purpose-driven" Christ has revealed, established, and enacted for the accomplishment of the single purpose He explicitly stated was His primary and solitary purpose: "I will build My Church, against which the gates of Hell shall not prevail."

This has been and remains to be The Alpha and Omega's purpose through all eternity; namely, the glorification of the Bride of Christ!

What is the Ephesians Four Network

Dr. Steven Lambert Founder/Director

The Ephesians Four Network is an international, non-denominational, multicultural, apostolic-prophetic alliance of Fivefold Ministers and friends related together in order to accomplish the End-Time purposes and plans of God ordained for the Church Jesus is building. Read more about our goals. A major part of the purposes and plans of God now revealed to the Church is a mandate that the Church begin to embrace and pursue the Ephesians Four Ministry Model delineated in the Fourth Chapter of the Ephesians Epistle. It is a ministry model in which all the Fivefold Ministry Offices are functioning and flowing together in concerted effort to accomplish the purposes and plans of God — that is, the ongoing ministry of Jesus.

Indeed, The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is the only model that will produce the results of the building up (edifying) and building (development) of the local church, both individually and corporately, that are delineated in the Ephesians Four text. How do we know that? Because it's the only model that God says in His Word will generate those results.

The foundational tenet of The Ephesians Four Network is The Ephesians Four Ministry Model. The establishment of that Model in the Church Jesus is building — not merely in theory, but in practice — is our overarching purpose and goal to which we are committed.

The foundational premise of The Ephesians Four Ministry Model is the colaboring together of the Fivefold Ministry Offices (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers) in harmonious concerted effort to equip, edify, educate, train, and mentor, the saints (believers) for the work of ministry, which will result in the building up and building out of the Church Jesus is building, until it comes unto the status of "a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Eph. 4:13); that is, ultimate spiritual maturity.

The primary objective of this Model is to establish the Kingdom of Christ in individual believers, resulting in the collective Church being established in the Kingdom of Christ, which will bring about the return of Christ to claim the Glorified Church as His Eternal Bride. To achieve that objective Fivefold Ministers must educate and immerse the Church in the Gospel of the Kingdom contrasted to the gospel of churchianity that is concerned with filling church buildings with people rather than filling people with the Kingdom of God. [Read more about EFN]

EFN Partners With ICOF

Recently, EFN Director, Dr. Steven Lambert, began dialoguing with Dr. Bernie Wade, President and Presiding Bishop of The International Circle of Faith (ICOF), a ministerial fellowship with roots dating back to the Azusa Street Revival as well as a history that predates that historic movement. As the discussions continued, the two leaders found much agreement concerning what God has been showing them about the present spiritual condition of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Church and where the Lord is leading His Church in this last hour.