Director, C. Baxter Kruger, Ph.D
Perichoresis is an international fellowship of Christian men and women who are moved by Jesus’ passion for his Father to be known. Out of this passion is emerging a recovery of the gospel of the Triune God and an outreach to the world. In the United States we are a registered 501c3 nonprofit corporation, based in Jackson, Mississippi. We have a sister ministry in Adelaide, Australia and are associated with Incarnation Ministries in Vancouver, B. C.
Our Mission:
• To recover the Christ-centered, trinitarian gospel of the ancient Church, and understand its relevance to human life today.
• To articulate the truth of our adoption in Jesus Christ in practical and personal ways that are relevant and accessible to the average person.
• To think through the personal, relational, global, historical, political, economic, religious, scientific and cosmic implications of Jesus’ identity as the Father’s Son, the Anointed One, and the One in and through and by and for whom all things were created and are sustained.
• To stimulate cross-discipline dialog centered upon the early Church’s vision of Jesus Christ and his central place in the cosmos.
• To share the truth of our adoption in Jesus Christ with the widest possible audience, through relationships, publications, teaching,, web site, conferences, and through equipping leaders and teachers, musicians and artists, pastors and missionaries around the world.
What We Believe:
We believe in the Triune God, Father, Son and Spirit, and we believe that this Triune God created, reconciled and embraced the world in Jesus Christ, as it was eternally purposed.
We believe Jesus Christ is the Father's eternal Son, very God of very God, our Lord and Savior, who became human and now lives forever as the incarnate Son in relationship with His Father in the Spirit. We believe Jesus Christ is the vicarious man, in whom the Triune God, the human race and the cosmos are not separated but bound together in relationship. Through his incarnate life, death, resurrection and ascension he gathered humanity in himself, reconciled us and included us in the Trinitarian life of God.
We believe the Holy Spirit is fully divine, equal to the Father and Son and that His passion is communion. We believe he was sent by the Father and Son to reveal the truth to us until we are set free from all forms of darkness. We believe the Church is called to participate in the Holy Spirit’s mission of revelation and healing, until the Son’s communion with his Father fills the earth as the waters cover the seas.
A Note on the Word Perichoresis
Genuine acceptance removes fear and hiding and creates freedom to know and be known. In this freedom arises a fellowship and sharing so honest and open and real that persons involved dwell in one another. There is union without loss of individual identity. When one weeps, the other tastes salt. It is only in the Triune relationship of Father, Son and Spirit that personal relationship of this order exists, and the early church used the word "perichoresis" to describe it. The good news is that we have been included in this relationship and it is to be played out fully in each of us and in all creation.
Significant Accomplishments
• Proclaimed the gospel of our adoption with simplicity and personal relevance, with special emphasis on the Father’s heart, our adoption in Christ, and what Jesus’ union with us means for us and our lives now.
• Recovered a relational vision that reflects the union of the Triune God, the human race and all creation in Jesus Christ, promotes healing for relationships, marriages and families, and establishes a framework for international relations.
• Reached out through relationships to touch millions of people around the world with the good news of their belonging to the Father, Son and Spirit
• Established Perichoresis Press with 7 books published (5 internationally) with 3 books in the works, and over 175 hours of teaching recorded and available.
• Established vital relationships with YWAM (Youth with a Mission), Good News to the Poor (Ken Blue), World Wide Church of God, Tabor College in Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia.
• Established thriving sister ministries in Australia & Canada, which share our mission to carry the gospel of the Triune God to the widest possible audience.
• Overseen the publication of over 60,000 copies of The Parable of the Dancing God, and supported its world-wide use in missions, teaching, counseling and in orphanages.
• Directly involved with 20 singer/songwriters, hundreds of missionaries and pastors in the USA and abroad.
• Taught in 10 Seminaries and colleges and preached in 50 churches, 20 denominations, in 4 countries.
• Established critical dialog with scientists, doctors, lawyers, counselors and teachers, and provided a relational, theological vision for a new integration overcoming our inherited divisions.
• Established regular discussions with recovery groups and counselors, providing a gospel vision that promotes real healing.
The Director
Dr. C. Baxter Kruger, theologian, writer and fishing lure designer is the Director of Perichoresis Ministries. Baxter is a native of Prentiss, Mississippi. He and his wife Beth have been married for 25 years and have 4 children. Baxter has degrees in political science, psychology and earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Kings College, Aberdeen University in Aberdeen, Scotland under Professor James B. Torrance. He is the author of 7 books, including The Great Dance, Jesus and the Undoing of Adam and Across All Worlds. He has lectured across Scotland, the United States, Canada and Australia. He is an avid outdoorsman and holds two United States patents for his fishing lure designs. He is the founder and President of Mediator Lures.
The Board of Directors
Perichoresis, Inc. is a nonprofit Christian ministry which functions under the supervision of a Board of Directors and International advisors.
Dirk Vanderleest, Chairman
Director of Jackson International Airport
Jackson, MS
Steve Horn
Steven H. Horn Commercial Properties
Madison, MS
Christy Jones
Attorney and Partner, Butler, Snow Law Firm
Jackson, MS
David Upshaw
Associate Pastor Christ United Methodist Church
Jackson, MS
Cary Stockett
Sr. Pastor Christ United Methodist Church
Jackson, MS
Cobb Ware, Jr.
President of Unishippers
Jackson, Ms
Gary Arinder
Owner of Arinder Duplication
Jackson, MS
International Advisors
David Jennings
Attorney and Partner, Irwin, White and Jennings Law Firm
Vancouver, Canada
Tom Hallas
Missionary, Global Leader with Youth With a Mission
Canberra, Australia
Bruce Wauchope. MD
Bedford Medical Clinic
Adelaide, Australia
David Peck
Magician, Philosopher, Missionary
Toronto, Canada
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