I.Our High Priest's Model of the Ministry of Reconciliation

In the seven epistles of Christ in Revelation chapters one through three we see Jesus, as the High Priest of the New Covenant and as the “head of the body” (Eph. 5:23, Col. 1:18) of Christ, working through His admonition to the pastors of local churches to keep His local churches pure from false doctrine, false practices, and false alignments. This leads us to the already, not yet implementation of the New Covenant. As we understand the already, not yet fulfillment of the implementation of the New Covenant during the Church age, we must understand that a dispensation is defined by principles of the covenant for that dispensation. Faithfulness is determined by how believers within a dispensation live according to the governing principles of the covenant of that dispensation. That is why a dispensation is often simply defined as a stewardship. The stewardship of the New Covenant in the Church Age is defined by congregational polity of a local church, evangelism/discipleship, the sanctification and consecration of the priesthood of all believers, and the practices of holiness, separation, and local church discipline in maintaining congregational accountability to the principles of the New Covenant.