Willis and Trudy Larson
Steve and Jan Koenig
Steve and Jan both came into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as teenagers in high school, nearly 35 years ago. We met at a collegiate Christian fellowship and were married in 1983. We have two grown children, who are a true blessing to us. Our heart’s desire is an increasingly closer walk with God and to encourage others in the same way.
God has led us on a path that first included a closer walk with Christ, then an encounter with the Holy Spirit that opened up a new revelation of the Godhead, and most recently experiences that have led us to the heart of Father God.
We have led home groups for over 20 years, and have seen God do wonderful things in people’s lives. However, something didn’t seem quite “right.” In 2004, we came to know Willis and Trudy Larson; through their testimony and witness to us, many things about life in God finally fell into place. Our relationship with the Lord has grown tremendously in these recent years, and we are excited to share with others what (and Who) we have come to know.
These two main themes in our ministry are absolutely foundational to our walk as Christians.. In the beginning . . . God created the heavens and the earth . . . and it was good. It was good, reflecting His nature and it was without evil. Scripture tells us that something happened to this good creation; Lucifer, a created archangel rebelled against God and was cast down from heaven onto the earth. The resulting chaos is reflected in Gen. 1:2 and following.
God, in His plan for the restoration of His creation on this earth established the Garden of Eden and then created Adam and Eve, giving them both physical life and spiritual life, His life. As dependent beings, He offered them an eternal life of intimacy and fellowship with Himself. They were created in the Image of god; one of the meanings of the Hebrew there is the word “shadow”, a faint representation, with the potential of becoming real. God invited them to eat of the Tree of Life and live in an intimate relationship with Himself and thereby be transformed from shadow to reality, the reality of Himself in all His Glory.
However, Lucifer, now called Satan, was already upon the earth and entered into the garden to tempt Adam and Eve. He offered them the opportunity to be like a god without having to be dependent, and enticed them into choosing a life of independence from God, eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
As a consequence of this rebellion, the life of God was removed from Adam and Eve and sin and death entered into them and into the new creation.
Restoration is God’s plan to redeem this situation. The fall in the garden did not come as a surprise to God – He had foreseen it even before the foundations of the Earth and had made provisions in Himself to make the way of recovery possible. Because of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, in complete obedience to His Heavenly Father, we are able to remove the enemy and his kingdom from our lives and to choose to replace it with the Kingdom of God.
Transformation – But wait! Recovery is not enough, it just restores us to a place where we can now enter into God’s eternal purpose for his creation in the garden – that we would be transformed into His likeness, from shadow into reality. His purpose has not changed. We are called to a dependent, intimate walk of obedience, eating continually of the Tree of Life which is the person of Jesus Christ. This includes being born again, to restore the life of God in us, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit to empower us to walk the Christian Life in dependant obedience,
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