Mission and Vision...

Zoe Community of the Holy Spirit is not a denomination but a fellowship of believers who with believers of all denominations confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, the Son of God sent by the Father; He is God revealing God to us, who through the incarnation stands in solidarity with us in our humanity. In His life, death, resurrection and ascension He has brought us into the vital dynamic relationship with the Father for which we were created.

The One God that Jesus revealed is love. He eternally exists in the limitless love relationship of Three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and it is into that divine relationship that Jesus has now included us. In this here and now moment we are guided, enlightened, taught and empowered by the Spirit to know that we are God's beloved children to love one another even as we are loved.Zoe is the Greek word used in the New Testament for life as God has it; the life of God is divine love for God is love. True life is love the divine love toward us, in us and through us to the world.Jesus described Himself as being the source of that life, giving it to us in overflowing abundance; it is the privilege of the believer to live in that eternal life in this here and now.

For over half a century Malcolm Smith has studied and sought to understand all of life through the prism of that life changing truth. Zoe is the company of believers who have gathered around this message to proclaim it throughout the world by their life and word as they seek to know the relationship to God to which all believers are called.

 

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith was born in London, England just as Europe was plunged into World War two. His earliest memories were made up of bomb shelters, blitzed buildings and bomb craters to the backdrop of the fear filled faces of parents.

He came to faith in Jesus Christ in his early teens and experienced a fullness of the Spirit almost immediately that was to change and redirect his life forever. He began to preach at age fourteen and has over the last decades preached throughout the world.Malcolm Smith is not an evangelist but as he often describes himself, is an evangelist to the evangelized, teaching believers who they are in Christ, the beloved of God and His dwelling place through the Spirit.From the beginning he had a passion to know how the earliest church understood the Gospel as they changed the face of civilization with their message. He soon realized that the focal point of the Gospel was the covenant love of God cascading into creation through Jesus Christ. But more than doctrine his passion was to discover the way in which the message of God's covenant love worked out in our mundane lives and the work place. How do we love one another as He has loved us? He was pastor of a church in New York City where all that he was beginning to understand was put to the test of the broken lives that fill the streets of that city. It was during that time that he found himself traveling through the U.S. as a teacher and leader of the emerging renewal of the Spirit throughout all denominations in the 60's and 70's. These travels extended to almost every continent.

He now resides in Bandera, Texas with his wife Nancy who joins him in her ministry of prayer and healing gifts of the Spirit. On the Zoe Ranch he conducts retreats and a non-residential Bible School. He also travels throughout the U.S. conducting retreats and meetings in churches and organizations of all denominations.

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