The Apostolic Revelation – The Reformation of the Church - Peace

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The Reformation of the Church
John Kingsley Alley

PUBLISHING
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The Apostolic Revelation.
Copyright8 2002, 2016 by John Kingsley Alley.

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Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Cover and Interior Design by Christine Smith.

ISBN 0-646-41849-1
First Edition - October 2002 - Printed in Australia.
Second Edition
First Printing - February 2003 - Printed in The Philippines
Second Printing - March 2003 - Printed in India.
Third Printing - June 2003 - Printed in the United States of America.
Third Edition - Feb 2016 - Printed in Sth Africa
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For CHRIST
who leads us to the City of God

“In your unfailing love you will lead
the people you have redeemed.
In your strength you will guide them
to your holy dwelling.
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance-
the place, O LORD, you made for your dwelling,
the sanctuary, O Lord, your hands established.
The LORD will reign for ever and ever.”
(Exodus 15:13-18)
“In that day will I raise up
the tabernacle of David that is fallen,
and close up the breaches thereof;
and I will raise up his ruins,
and I will build it as in the days of old”
(Amos 9:11 KJV)
“Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”
(Isaiah 58: 12)
“They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.”
(Isaiah 61: 4)
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Acknowledgments
I owe a great debt of gratitude to many
people, in many parts of the world.
I would express my appreciation to every
brother and sister in Christ who has loved,
served and supported me.
In particular, I wish to acknowledge the
supremely important part played by the people
of the apostolic company, Peace Christian
Church. Many have helped me to explore and
live out the values of apostolic Christianity,
and to understand and come to grips with the
changes which God has brought to our lives
and the church.
I have been greatly upheld and loved by these
dear saints. Their sacrifice, to stand with me
in the cause of Christ, has required great faith
and perseverance. I am deeply grateful for
their love, their devotion to principle, and their
commitment to untiring intercession. These
believers have walked in great faithfulness
with me and each other.
They are faithful servants of Christ.
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Contents
Foreword 12
Introduction 14
Chapter 1 The Apostolic Message:
Reformation for the Church! 17
Chapter 2 The Grace of Apostleship 25
Chapter 3 What Is an Apostle? 35
Chapter 4 The Nature of an Apostle 51
Chapter 5 The Authority of an Apostle 73
Chapter 6 Women in Apostolic Ministry 101
Chapter 7 The Apostolic Covering 119
Chapter 8 Apostles and Elders, with the
Church as One Body 151
Chapter 9 Fathering and Sonship in the Ministry 183
Chapter 10 The Humanity of Apostles 203
Chapter 11 An Apostolic People 219
Chapter 12 Towards the New Apostolic Wineskin 233
Appendix Components of an Apostolic Constitution 251
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Personal References
concerning the life and ministry of the author:
The following references are for the purpose of affirming the validity of the call and anointed
ministry, as well as godly character, of the author. They are not intended as recommendations
of everything published in this book, since most of these writers have not had the opportunity
of reading the manuscript before publishing. The reader must assess the contents of the book
personally by being sensitive to the inner witness of the Spirit of Grace.
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In 1999, we held a Convention in Brisbane to which we invited five well-known speakers
from within and outside Australia. Brother John Alley was one of our speakers.
Pastors came from Singapore, Malaysia, India, The United States, New Zealand and from
other parts of Australia. After the Conference, all of us (Pastors, Leaders and saints from
different churches) felt as one, a deep respect for brother John Alley as a servant and
statesman of God.
He truly carried on him an evident display of the life and nature of Christ. His life was his
message in Christ. His understanding and teaching of apostleship is always on the cutting
edge. Each time I hear brother John speak on Apostleship, I know that he does not just
impart revelational knowledge, but he imparts the Lord’s apostleship and the authority
associated with it, to many lives.
We thank God that our fellowship has been richly blessed through brother John Alley’s life
and impartation as an Apostle. We thank God for this heavenly connection and friendship
with Apostle John Alley.
Dr Sim Choo Jek
Resurrection Life Ministries
Brisbane, Australia
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The world is divided into several different groups when it comes to the idea of apostles
and the apostolic ministry for today. There are the vast majority who are totally unaware
of apostles and spend no time whatsoever considering it. Then there is the vocal group
that is well aware of the apostolic due to the fact that they have been schooled by their
religious traditions with the idea that apostles are not for today and therefore anyone
who suggests that they still exist is heretical. Then, there are those who can accept the
idea that apostles may still exist, at least in a conceptual way, but they have little or no
idea of what that means in present day life.
Finally, there is a group of believers who not only accepts, but embraces, the notion that
God is still calling men and women into the five-fold ministry, including the office of the
apostle. Apostle John Alley is of this last group who has spent many years seeking God
through study, prayer, fasting, and a constant quest to understand what the Lord is doing
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in these last days. His words come from a long season of such seeking and living out the
apostolic experience in the places of the world where God has sent him. His words are
worthy of your consideration. May God inspire you to such seeking of the truth.
Bob Hauselman, Senior Pastor
Restoration Christian Church
Sellersburg, Indiana, U.S.A.
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When we first visited John Alley’s church in Rockhampton, in 1994, they were engaged
in a 40 day fast. It was an awesome experience to walk in there to minister, and to be
ministered to by John in such an atmosphere of God’s great glory. It is John’s great
gifting from the Holy Spirit to establish, very human, lasting and deepening personal
friendships. This has been a major source of strengthening in my ministry.
We had the privilege of staying with John, his wife Hazel and their lovely children during
our visit to Australia in 1997. Truly we felt that the beautiful presence of Christ was in
that home. My wife and I could clearly see that this was a very special ‘Levite’ family.
When John visited us during our period of ministry on the Shankill Road, Belfast in
1999 we believe our area of the city of Belfast was greatly touched as he led us in
intercession at the interfaces of some of the most impoverished sections. John is one
of God’s specials, always involved as a vital part of God’s vanguard, pushing out the
frontiers of what God plans for His Church before His longed for second coming.
Rev. Clifford Taylor, M.A.,
Superintendent of the Mutare Circuit of the
Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.
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I first met John a few years ago when I was the incumbent General Secretary of the Quezon
City Pastoral Movement. He was the guest speaker of the anniversary of the Movement.
He truly proved to be a blessing. He gave a powerful prophetic word that motivated and
set in motion the beginnings of our thrust for city taking. I had several other opportunities
to fellowship with him after that which proved to be a personal blessing.
The Body of Christ needs more ministers like him, who have a heart both for the Lord
and His Body. He possesses a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit that is refreshing. May
you be blessed by his ministry as I have been and continue to be.
Rev. Joey Zabarte
Senior Minister
Words of Life Christian Ministries
Manila, Philippines
I have known John for the past 3 and 1/2 years. He is one of the most sincere servants
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of the Lord. John has a special gift of imparting the blessings of the Holy Spirit. He
is also a very good teacher and has opened the eyes of many Pastors in Chennai. He
has been a great blessing to me and my ministry.
This book ‘The Apostolic Revelation’ by John will be a real blessing to the readers. God
has anointed him with knowledge of apostolic ministry, and he is very good in sharing this
knowledge with others. Hence this book will be a boon to whoever reads this.
Pr. Vincent Samuel,
Senior Minister
Calvary Community Church
Chennai, India
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It was John Alley’s ‘Tower of Intercession’ that first grabbed my attention. Here is
a minister who is making a priority of prayer and respects the role of intercessors.
Then he was willing to come and pour himself for days into Logan Intercessors as
passionately as he does from large pulpits around the world. I appreciate this man’s
heart and his accessibility.
My heart resonates with his messages. John is articulating what so many of us have
been feeling for years - God is moving on. The old ways are becoming obsolete. The
church as we know it has little relevance. We have failed as the representation of Christ
in the earth, His Body, God revealed among men. Non Christians are saying, “Jesus
yes, but the church no”.
John is talking about a new era where old things are passed away and all things are
become new. It is exciting and full of hope and the glory of the Lord. Not personality
cults and powerful leaders, but humble servants showing hungry wherever he is with
whomever God’s people are. We are in transition. What was is passing, and what will
be does not yet quite appear. John’s prophetic eye is seeing a little more clearly than
the rest of us. John is an apostle raised up by God to help us make the transition, a
forerunner preparing the way of the Lord, making His paths straight.
I am sure what he has written, out of the wealth of what God is revealing to him, will
help you make a smoother transition through the turmoil of the death of the old and
birth of the new. This book will help you cope with the change.
Joye Alit
Global Intercessor
Jubilate Ministries
Maleny, Queensland, Australia
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I believe that in John we have a true apostle. He has been through refining fires and
not stumbled, nor has he said “Too hard, God”.
I have been sitting under his teaching as much as possible for five years, and know
him to be a man of humility, integrity, obedience, and deep faith — a man God has
ordained for this time, who has the apostolic heart to nurture apostolic sons. Therefore
it is my honour to recommend John, and I believe God will use him to equip apostles
for the future.
Olive Gates
Team Leader
Logan Intercessors
Logan City, Queensland, Australia
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It has been my pleasure to get to know John Alley from Australia as a result of a number
of visits to Northern Ireland in recent years. He is a man who has a heart after God,
and a deep desire to see unity in the Body of Christ.
He has a God-given passion to see the Church function in the way God planned it to
be, and to see churches, leaders, and individuals flow together in the five fold ministries
irrespective of denominational affiliation.
God has raised this leader to focus our thoughts on Apostleship, and bring together
across many different nations people of like mind. He is a man of vision,who has a
heart for prayer. I personally look forward to his early return to Northern Ireland.
Rev. Leslie Spence
Superintendent Minister
Glenavy and Moira Circuit of the
Methodist Church in Ireland
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John Alley represents a rising breed of men within the Church world wide who have
been ordained by God and raised up to exercise apostolic ministry. My experience of
John within the context of seminars, workshops, one on one and in his home setting has
convinced me of his call to this ministry, and his gifting to exercise apostolic ministry.
John’s ministry has had a profound effect on my calling as an ordained minister within
the Uniting Church tradition. Through his teaching, mentoring, spiritual fathering and
apostolic covering I have had the unique experience of being released into the apostolic
philosophy and anointing of ministry; as a result I have experienced an empowerment
for equipping and releasing other leaders and small struggling congregations into the
mission God calls them to.
John’s teaching on the Apostolic Reformation brings into a clear spiritual focus the
changes in the world and the Church which have mainly been expressed in sociological
terms. John’s teaching presents an insightful revelation of Biblical teaching which
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defines these social and spiritual transformations that we are witnessing around our
globe; he is able to articulate these current trends through Biblical exegesis and reveal
God’s plan for action, through inspired and a careful exposition of the Scriptures.
I believe that as you engage with the pages of this book you will also encounter the
transformational thinking which is the Apostolic Reformation.
Rev. Craig Mischewski
Uniting Church, Tingalpa
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I praise God for answering my prayers. He has allowed me to personally meet my
Brother John Alley who has this gift of Apostleship from God. I heard him preach with
biblical clarity and conviction. He hit the nail of the need of the times right on its head.
Many are guilty of the sin of idolatry. Dependence and faith are anchored no longer in
the power of God the Almighty, but on the institutionalized instruments of God such
as the established & organized denominations and movements.
God’s power will pour and fill His servants not through institutions but through
relationships. God, Alley says, wants this kind of a covering to bless and protect his
workers.
The christian with the gift of apostleship is God’s instrument to mentor, encourage and
care for his workers transcending all denominational barriers.
Let’s therefore welcome this ministry as from the Lord with open minds, hearts and
hands.
John Joseph Leo B. Castillo
Senior Pastor
Fairview Fundamental Baptist Church
Fairview Park, Quezon City, Philippines.
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John Alley is a man appointed by the Father to bring winds of change to the stagnant
waters of religious practice. His understanding of the apostolic call upon today’s church
comes from much study and revelation of the purposes of God.
John’s ministry has been of great blessing to my church, especially during this time of
transition. I count his friendship of utmost value and always welcome his advice and
input into my own ministry.
David Trigg, Senior Minister
Oakey Church Unlimited
Oakey, Queensland, Australia
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