The history of New Life City getting us ready for our 10 year celebration

In Malcom Gladwell's book called "the Tipping Point."  He shares 3 principles for causing what he calls a Tipping Point. 

The nearest thing to a tipping point is what we call an epidemic.  It's when the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.  It's like a disease that is running through a community and can't be stopped. 

He says the 3 things you need to cause a Tipping point are an infected agent, contagiousness & an environment for that thing to grow. 

While most Christians debate Church and State with an eye toward trying to establish that our nation was founded as a 'Christian' nation,  let us instead think on politics as the Reformation and Radical Reformation traditions dealt with it.  On the one hand the legacy of the Reformation is the failed state religions of western Europe which have largely been laid aside in favor of secular nations.  On the other hand is the pacifist religious traditions that have weakened more and more over the five centuries.  In America we have the hybrid reality of vibrant churches that

Calling all Saints!

The youth of New Life City are in the beginning stages of an amazing growth period.  New students are showing up weekly and the group is plunging in to the things of the Kingdom of God.

I was completely frustrated with trying to thoughtfully grasp and teach the mysteries of the Word of God.  Every  system of theology left me feeling as if someone from Mars was trying to explain the culture of Venus by looking through binoculars. Then I listened to a teaching on “Blood Covenant” by Malcolm Smith. I was completely undone.

That phrase is from the scriptures meaning three and a half years and indicating a time of tribulation and suffering.  Believers are called to wisdom when faced with such times in the Revelation of John.  We are also called to endurance.  Church, pay attention to your life during this season.  The American situation is worse than we think.  Our economy is being propped up artificially.  We are not surviving right now on good principles but on extreme measures.