We as arche+ hub are called to empower God's people once again to place themselves holistically under God's rule and no longer distinguish between spiritual and worldly life. We are pursuing a complementary┃all-society, all-pervading strategy.

Our country is largely drifting into pagan lifestyles and rejecting its Hebrew+Christian roots. Most people in Germany have never experienced the healing, renewing power of the Gospel. We as an apostolic ministry are anointed to bring healing, renewal, deliverance as well as very practical solutions. Our apostolic calling goes far beyond church planting.

Bringing global solutions where none seem to exist

The apostolic ministry is necessary to make God's wisdom visible. By giving concrete economic systems that make it possible to provide for people. Economic systems in which work and human dignity are inseparable. Our vision as an apostolic┃prophetic ministry is to create a future in which people and creation as well as people and Creator live in harmony with one another.

In our struggle for the apostolic mission with a complementary (from Lat. 'complementum', supplement, completion) approach, which cannot be reduced to classical evangelism and church planting, we come up against a lack of knowledge here and there in the body of Christ. Through our ministry, we also aim to significantly expand both the theoretical and, above all, the practical understanding of apostolic ministry.

In physics, many phenomena have been discovered that can only be described in complementary terms, i.e. in a two's and three's complementarity. For example, we speak of complementary colors when two colors (e.g. red and green) complement each other to form white. In experiments, an electron can only be proven separately as a particle on the one hand and as a wave on the other, and yet it is always both at the same time. This also applies to light.

There are many examples of complementary teaching in the Bible, the Trinity, Jesus Christ as God and man at the same time, predestination and responsibility, judgment and pardon, love and wrath of God, doctrine and life, baptism as an act of God and man, faith and knowledge, law and grace, the necessity of ministry and the general priesthood or the difference and togetherness of man and woman are each presented to us in the Bible with two or more sides that belong together indissolubly and yet can only be thought of one after the other. It is not "illogicality", but the limitations of mankind that ensure that mankind is dependent on complementary statements, especially in the area of biblical revelation.

Complementary thinking means that two, three or more sides of a phenomenon can only be examined and described one after the other.

Paul's complementary approach

On his second missionary journey, Paul founded the first Christian community in Europe in Philippi. He writes in his letter to the Philippians:

"... work for your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do, according to his good pleasure." Philippians 2:12-18

It is a paradoxical formulation. On the imperative side, Paul calls on his congregation to make an effort and work for their own salvation. He does this in the same way as one speaks to people with their own will and freedom of choice. On the indicative side, however, he speaks of a God who, independently of man's freedom of will, brings about his will and accomplishment. Paul uses predestinatory language to justify and reinforce this promise, e.g. in his letter to the Romans:

"But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For those whom he chose he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. But those whom he predestined, he also called; those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified, he also glorified." Romans 8:28

When Paul speaks predestinarian on the side of assurance, he gains the certainty of unconditional, all-effective grace, but he loses the responsibility of man, who must give an account before God. Paul does justice to man's responsibility before God with the formulation: work for your salvation with fear and trembling. By holding on to both the responsibility of man and the all-effective grace of God, a dilemma arises that cannot be resolved, but can be brought into a complementary relationship.

"... work for your salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do, according to his good pleasure." Philippians 2:12-18

With his "because" Paul creates a relationship between the complementary statements.

We are responsible before God and are predestined for his grace.

Either one sees the responsibility of free man before God, in which case grace becomes blurred. Or the all-effective grace of God is present, in which case man's responsibility and freedom become blurred. You can only ever grasp one side at a time. But both belong to the same medal. Through the "because" turn Paul's sentences in the direction of predestination. And yet this "because" remarkable. Paul thus shows a sense that the irresolvable contradictions are somehow related to each other. In Paul's sense, we can say that we are responsible before God and are predestined for his grace. A similarly complementary formulation is used in an interpretation of the late medieval principle "ora et labora"Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you.

A people that is completely under God's rule

I have learned from Messianic Jews about "our Christian roots" that God's kingdom already began with the progenitor Abraham, spread to the people of Israel and that non-Jewish believers were also drawn in through Christ. There was once a people who were completely under God's rule and no longer distinguished between spiritual and worldly life. May this view broaden our spiritual perspective. Away from the focus on church building, towards a greater understanding. This realization unfolds a bouquet of revelations.

Moses and many other people from the Old Testament were apostles

Moses presided over this nation of disciples; he was clearly called to be an apostle. He is never referred to as such in the Old Testament, but if you look at his person, you can recognize the classic characteristics of an apostolic personality: a clear sense of calling, combined with the authority to act in a liberating and restorative way. In addition, God entrusts him with an entire people - combined with the task of leading them to the promised land and guiding them to a life pleasing to God.

Joshua clearly acts apostolically

Seen in this light, many personalities in the Old Testament reveal themselves to have had a clear apostolic impact. Take Joshua, for example: his authority to act stems not only from the fact that he is Moses' designated representative and later successor. We also see in him how he leads the way with apostolic authority and makes room for the people of God, who then occupy, plant and inhabit the land. Heaven and earth work together by driving out the giants and overcoming seemingly insurmountable fortresses - in short: achieving victory. With all due respect for the magnitude of his task, Joshua leads the way with an awareness of God's authority. He opens up the spaces, consolidates and distributes the land, organizes the ownership structures and lays the foundations for a society as a whole under the rule of God.

Joseph - an apostle in business and politics

He demonstrates the wisdom, greatness and love of God before the eyes of the nations and plants the meagre remnant of his people right in the heart of what was then the most powerful empire in the known world. At that time, the Israelites were only 70 strong and threatened with extinction. But God calls a man from among them to save his people from destruction. The kings Saul, David and Solomon also took up their apostolic mission. If we follow this logic, then Saul, David and Solomon also belong in this category. It also becomes clear what dimension this calling can take on: It is even clearly associated here with the office of king. However, it is not the office that drives the divine mission, but rather the fact that God has empowered his kings.

Apostles as vanguard

God has also "called some to be apostles" today. If they do not take up their mandate to recognize and implement God's plans in a larger context, then the world is missing crucial strategic pieces of the puzzle. Or to put it positively: When people realize their apostolic mandate, it powerfully advances the good purposes of God, especially the mission. The apostles must go first. Only then will the other Christians follow with all their gifts and fill the opened spaces with life.

Apostles bring change on a grand scale

Like many other people around the world, we are commissioned and empowered by God to build God's kingdom on earth in a pioneering way.

In all 7 Mountains of societyIn the economy and society, in politics and education and even in art and culture.

Like Joseph or Daniel, we are called into the midst of the world to bring about change on a grand scale. May this realization help us to discover people and ministries that clearly have an apostolic calling. While not every entrepreneur is an apostle, some of them are certainly called to build primarily apostolically and not just to generate finances for the mission. Entire cities or regions are to come under God's influence in this way, opening people's eyes to His greatness and love.

Amen!

arche+ spiritual ministry with a complementary approach

Bringing global solutions where none seem to exist

Complementarity

The two sides of the same coin

Paul's complementary approach

A people that is completely under God's rule

Moses and many other people from the Old Testament were apostles

Joshua clearly acts apostolically

Joseph - an apostle in business and politics

Apostles as vanguard

Apostles bring change on a grand scale

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The two sides of the same coin

Paul's complementary approach

A people that is completely under God's rule

Moses and many other people from the Old Testament were apostles

Joshua clearly acts apostolically

Joseph - an apostle in business and politics

Apostles as vanguard

Apostles bring change on a grand scale

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