Starfish Publishing is a new resource function carried by contributing authors committed to this present reformation. It is the publishing arm of the “Starfish Partnership”, a global, informal network of followers of Jesus Christ, with the goal of seeing half the planet discipled through the starfish-type multiplication of organic/simple house churches, regional apostolic networks and a return to Kingdom economics. Starfish Edition exists to make vital materials towards this goal easily accessible and globally available for the empowerment of anyone. Starfish Publishing is a decentralized network and is based on the philosophy of a Christian gift economy. Materials are not for sale. They are only available as an investment in you; however, we would ask you to honor the following risk-free moral agreement:
- If you like the material, please “pay it forward” to at least ten others; secondly, please seek personal and financial ways to get involved in the vision and mission it carries. The Starfish Foundation serves as a financial instrument to facilitate this.
- If you don’t like the material, please simply delete it; there are no strings attached.
All digital resources (E-books, newsletters etc) are password protected Pdf-files. You will have to type “ok” as a sign of your agreement to open them.
Starfish Foundation
The goal of the Starfish Foundation is simply to support whatever it takes to see the Starfish Vision become reality. Not that this is a do-able thing at all. It is humanly completely impossible, and only if we and our human good plans die as a kernel of wheat, once we admit to our own spiritual bankruptcy and discard any unhealthy triumphalism or even a naivety that proudly proclaims “church-history-starts-with-us” will we be able to join God in his eternal plans. Starfish is not a new Mission agency or an organization that looks for members. It is the lifestyle of an apostolic people, that naturally and organically form a visionary and relational network that exists to be a catalytic movement towards at least ten very specific goals, and looks both for champions and pre-existing networks who help to implement and accelerate the process of making this missionary vision a reality. The ten goals are:
- To promote repentance and loyalty to Jesus as savior and King
- To preach, like Jesus, the gospel of the Empire of God
- To see 200 million house-churches planted to disciple at least 50% of humanity
- To identify current and emerging prophets and apostles and encourage synergy
- To facilitate Saturation Garden planting: to identify apostolic jurisdictions – gardens – and match them with five-fold ministry teams ready to give their lives for the discipling of their turf (region, city, people group)
- To promote the general return to messianic finance principles
- To create appropriate financial infrastructures for a Kingdom economy
- To provide resources, materials and practical training, furthering this mission
- To promote unity of the body of Christ based on allegiance to Jesus, his Empire and his mission
- To exist for the sole purpose that the lamb that is slain shall receive the reward of his suffering
