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We're
very grateful for endorsements from friends that took time
to read Releasing Kings and share their insights.
You'll enjoy their thoughts on this book.
Here is my endorsement
for your great new book: If you have any doubt that what you do
in the workplace is not just a job, but a true, God-assigned
ministry, Releasing Kings will make you a believer. This book is
a clear road map toward exciting new freedom for the saints in
the Body of Christ.
— C. Peter Wagner, Presiding Apostle
International
Coalition of Apostles
Releasing Kings For
Ministry in the Marketplace is a refreshing look at what God
wants to do through us in the workplace. The authors model
bridge building as a business leader and minister write
together. They offer biblical insights into the roles of
prophets, priests, and kings. Your assumptions will be
challenged, your faith enlarged, and your courage increased as
you read these words. Creativity, mentoring, and transformation
will be the results in the lives of those leaders who experience
Jesus Christ in their workplace. This will be a helpful resource
for both workplace leaders and pastors.
— Kent
Humphreys, President
Fellowship of Companies for Christ
Courageous! Releasing Kings is a
bold and exciting introduction to the new frontier of Marketplace
ministry and evangelism. It is a must-read for business people and
professionals who want to understand and empower their calling to
proclaim the Good News to their community and the world.
—
Patty and Roger Stewart
Book Quest, Centralia,
WA
Insightful and anointed! The
marketplace is the new frontier for ministry and evangelism. Until now
it has been one of the most misunderstood mission fields we have faced.
The concept of Releasing Kings for Ministry in the Marketplace is a call
to empower a new generation of business leaders who exemplify Christian
character and zeal for reaching the lost. It is also a challenge to seek
new resources for support of ministry and evangelism and to explore
innovative ministry opportunities at home, abroad, and through all
strata of society. John and Harold have unlocked the door for men and
women of vision and action to prosper and expand God’s Kingdom.
— Stephan Brown
“The Network” Threshold Resourcing
Phoenix, AZ
Steve Brown gave me a draft of
your new book. It is reshaping my life and setting me free, seriously.
I am an engineer, a manufacturer and a former pastor; the King idea
feels right. In His firm grip,
— Andy Briesmeister
Selah, WA
You have delivered something
rare and significant from the heart of God, through this book. You have
come a long way since Bible Way and your Methodist days. It took a lot
of life and experience to have the whiskers to see and say these
things. As I read your book, I learned and saw things more clearly that
I already believed. It is a timely book, in my opinion. It was for
me. I believe thousands of believers are hungry for this, even though
they may not know it. Believers need to be equipped with right
thinking.
I appreciated your
matter-of-fact candor in making radical statements. You came across
with a clean, healthy attitude, not with reaction or sour grapes, even
though much of what you teach could be inflammatory to those trapped in
the status quo. Sometimes it takes a cowboy to call a spade a spade,
huh!
I believe what you are doing is
love in action. Love takes initiative to bring change. It is a lot of
work for you to write a book and try to get it in the hands of the
people. I pray God will abundantly prosper it and shoot each one as an
arrow to the target. It is bold! Stretching! Radical! But on target,
I feel. It's like a chiropractic adjustment. The average believer will
feel the crunch somewhere.
This is the kind of message we
need to see the earth covered with the glory of the Lord and real
evangelism happen. Daily in my shop I talk to believers who are
virtually ineffective in evangelism, even pastors and leaders. I would
like copies of this book to give out. God bless you.
— Wayne Hayworth
(pastor who married John and Sue in 1974)
Portland, OR
Throughout the World, something
unprecedented is happening, supernaturally and beyond the norm.
Believers and non-believers are coming together in the Marketplace as
they come together in the art of business. This book brings to all who
read it a spanning of the denominational and non-denominational
believers, a recognition of specific interests in God in the pursuit of
our daily lives. I've been touched and am changed by this eye-opening
book.
— Richard O. Tedeschi
President, Radiant Light Broadcasting TV
TriCities, WA
Releasing Kings for Ministry in
the Marketplace by John Garfield and Harold Eberle is a must read for
both church leaders and those called to the marketplace. This refreshing
book will be used by the Lord to prepare the church of our generation
for the coming harvest. I highly recommend it! May the Lord release His
kings, His priests, and His prophets to honor one another and then labor
together with Him to bring in the harvest.
— Larry Kreider
International Director,
DOVE Christian Fellowship International (DCFI)
Lititz, PA
Foreword
By John L. Sandford
For too long the church has been
mired in the mud of negative theologies and eschatologies, unable to
speak with effectiveness to the business community, who must, by nature,
build with positive hopes—or their projects, which necessarily must be
planned years in advance, never would begin. For countless years the
Church has proclaimed it must move out from within its four walls into
ministry in the marketplace. Currently many of the Lord’s prophets are
pronouncing with great emphasis and urgency that this is the time when
our Lord is going to prosper those who will have the faith and courage
to step forward into ministry in the marketplace. But the Church has not
known how.
John Garfield and Harold Eberle
have responded to the Lord’s call. This book is a breath of fresh air
to those suffocating under the old wine skins of ministry. John and
Harold make clear that those called into ministry in the marketplace are
“Kings” who are not to be confined to ministry within the four walls of
the church as “Priests.” John and Harold blow a clear trumpet to all
business men and women to arise in their own giftings, within their own
“secular’ places of work, to know irrevocably that their allegedly
secular work is the holy ground of their callings, their giftings, and
their ministries. They blow away the halitosis of centuries of false
breathing in rooms of tiny concepts inside stifling walls to celebrate
the value and worth of all that men and women do to build God’s Kingdom
“out there” on Earth. They demolish the binding concept that true
Christians, of course, must leave the workaday world to answer God’s
call upon their lives in some kind of church vocation that could be
called “holy”—and is not truly theirs as God’s Kings in the world.
Jesus was a carpenter from his youth until He was thirty. Paul was a
tentmaker who ministered where he was in the workaday world.
God is a builder, preparing for
better and greater ways and constructs right here on earth. He is making
a new heaven—and a new earth. Releasing Kings For Ministry in the
Marketplace aims to set free the vast army of the Lord’s servants to be
who they are, God’s sons and daughters who partner with Him in building
His kingdom in the world.
This book declares that we must
set our people free to be as creative, energetic, and innovative as the
Holy Spirit prompts, right where they are in the marketplace. We must
lift away the false demands and guilt that these servants of the Lord
are not being truly spiritual unless, or until, they throw off their own
callings and accept truly “spiritual” tasks for which they are neither
called nor gifted!
The Church needs desperately to
hear this message. I say, “Buy not one copy, get a copy into the hands
of every business man and woman in your church—and outside it.” God, and
this book, want to bring forth the “princes who will rule justly” of
Isaiah 32:1. “And each will be like a refuge from the wind, and a
shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry country, like the
shade of a huge rock in a parched land” (vs 2).
— John L.
Sandford
Founder, Elijah House
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