What or who is New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI)?
We are a trans-local ministry team. NCMI is comprised of men and women who are able to help build local churches, and to equip and mobilise believers for the fulfilment of the work of the Kingdom – the discipling of the nations.
NCMI is not an organisation or grouping of churches. Although there are local churches that relate to NCMI, we are simply a team of individuals who are committed to the advance of the Kingdom of God. We are currently working into over 80 different countries, and there are churches in many of these nations that are voluntarily linked with NCMI as a trans-local, Apostolic/Prophetic team.
The relationship we have with local churches is very important to us as we work together to fulfil the Great Commission. The churches that relate to NCMI come from many different backgrounds; some are newly planted churches, while others are churches that have been around longer than NCMI. Some have related to NCMI since their inception, others have not but have found, in NCMI, an expression of Apostolic/Prophetic Christianity that they wanted to a part of.
Whatever the case may be, we see the whole of what we are involved in as groupings
of friends, working together in team, motivated by a love for Jesus Christ and a desire to “speed His coming.”
This working together – NCMI as an Apostolic/Prophetic team and the local churches that relate to the team – is founded on shared Biblical values and a shared understanding of what a New Testament Church is, and what it is that God has called the Church to do. Relating churches also share with us a vision to see the nations discipled, and a common ministry ethos. We build relationship with these churches, through their pastors and leaders, around our shared vision and values.
Although relating churches have chosen a primary relationship with NCMI as an Apostolic/Prophetic team, we do not consider this to be an exclusive relationship.
Although we believe passionately that local churches working in relationship with a trans-local team is a vital New Testament pattern, NCMI is not an elitist grouping. We are aware that we are continually growing in our understanding of God’s ways, and are continually learning to apply those ways more accurately. The NCMI team acknowledges that we are only one of many similar groupings being used by God throughout the world today, and openly confess that what God is doing through NCMI is ‘despite’ us, more than because of us.
It is not our intent to build a denomination, and we do not consider ourselves to be a mission, a movement or a parachurch organization. For this reason we have no headquarters, nor do we have a common constitution which all the relating churches sign. We have no membership committee and no system of imposed authority, and all the local churches that have chosen to relate to NCMI do so freely and may, at any time, choose otherwise.
We believe that Biblically, the highest authority in a local church is its own eldership (pastoral) team, and therefore, all the relating churches retain their autonomy. Ministry into the local church by NCMI team members, and other gifted leaders, takes place by invitation. As friendships develop, and as mutual giftings in God are recognised and accepted, relating churches are able to invite any team member to come and minister who they feel will help to build the church.
Relating church leadership is also encouraged to participate in related leaders meetings, and to involve their church members in the city celebrations and Leadership Training Times (conferences) where team members work together to build an Apostolic/Prophetic wineskin into the Church.
What gives reality to our partnership, is a single-hearted commitment to covenant relationships, and to working together in team. Everybody is encouraged to give freely whatever they have to contribute, as we seek to fulfil all that the King calls us to.
What gives reality to our partnership, is a single-hearted commitment to covenant relationships, and to working together in team. Everybody is encouraged to give freely whatever they have to contribute, as we seek to fulfil all that the King calls us to.
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