Welcome to the Bethel Church Sermon of the Week. We hope you enjoy this message by Chris

Valaton. For more information about this podcast and other resources visit iBethel.org.

Well, I started a series before I came off of, before I went on vacation, so I guess

that was about two weeks ago, called becoming an Abastolic People. I don't know, I started

on Sunday nights, so I don't know how many of you are serious enough about God to come

on a Sunday night. I don't know, I plugged that like that. But I want to talk about the,

about four attributes of Abastolic People. Now, these aren't the only four attributes,

these are the four attributes I felt like I was supposed to share this morning. And the

first one, the first attribute actually did a whole session on it on two Sunday nights

ago. So if you, if you want to hear more about, I'm going to share a little bit about

this. But if you'd like to hear more, I actually did an hour teaching on the first attribute

that I'm going to share this morning. And so attribute number one is that we are covenant

people. Therefore, we belong to a family. And we are not here because we agree. Now,

many years ago, in fact, the very first year I was here at Bethel at Caffeine, I came to

Bethel. I was laying on the floor in our little apartment and the Lord just talked to me

and he, through an encounter and he said, we're moving from denominationalism to apostleships.

Now, I've shared this many times and it's in two of my books. But for the sake of kind

of giving you a foundation for what I'm going to share today, I feel like this encounter

is kind of important for you to understand the rest of what I'm saying. He said, we're

moving from denominationalism, everybody say, isim. We're moving from denominationalism

to apostleships asking what that means. Now, before I go on, I'm not talking about denominations.

It doesn't matter what it says over the door of your church. It only matters what it says

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