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About Us
Dr. Karl D. Coke is an internationally acclaimed Hebrew scholar and teacher from the Evangelical Theological Seminary whose expertise in the original languages of Holy Scripture causes the Bible to come alive for his audiences and readers. He is president of Redirection, a ministry that establishes the home as the center for spiritual development among Christian communions. Karl, his wife Karen, and their daughter Kristin live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On November 20, 1990, Dr. Coke was resting in his room at the Union Biblical Seminary in Pune, India. Dr. Coke was a guest teacher at the seminary for one week. He was teaching the students Hebrew, the Book of Amos and the Pentateuch. As Dr. Coke read Isaiah 48 and 49, God spoke to him about "leaving Babylon." God said... "Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Send it out to the ends of the earth; say "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob." Isaiah 48:20. "To say to his captives, 'Come Out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!' They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill." Isaiah 49:9 Dr. Coke sought God from November 23, 1990 until June 28, 1991 about developing a purely Biblical ministry. God revealed that each Believer must assume the responsibility of his own spiritual growth! Dr. Coke's job was to make spiritual food available, but, each believer must learn to eat for himself. In one great revelation, God had eliminated the age-old excuse "I'm not being fed!" God also reveled that each Believer must make his exclusive goal to please God, not man (II Corinthians 5:9 & John 8:29. This revelation eliminated competition with other Believers. God further reveled that the home needed to be restored as the center for spiritual growth! This eliminated the wasted time of going "to" meetings, and re-established the head of the household as priest of that home. This revelation stopped the procedure of heads of the household releasing the spiritual responsibility to others. It gave rise to building relationships between parents and children. It let parents know where their child was spiritually. The time has come to reestablish heads of households as the spiritual leaders in the home. This can be a man or a woman in single parent situations. Spiritual priests must be raised up in the home. This requires that heads of households learn how to eat spiritual food for themselves. People are not going to eat for themselves as long as pastors make attendance obligatory (a mortal sin) and provide so many programs that there is no family time. |
