"This faith thing really works for you, doesn't it?" Gordon had watched my marriage, values, and life direction, which prompted his question. It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that everything that is currently priceless in my seventy-plus years has been touched by the spiritual rapport, spiritual wisdom, and spiritual conscience that resulted from the conversion of an eleven-year-old.

Doing whatever it takes to put the puck in the net

What does a prevailing church in Canada look like? What do they do?

At times, God intends not to advance the kingdom by a direct order impressed on our knower. There are times for a mature leader, schooled in the New Testament Pattern, when there is something that needs doing, something that ‘is not yet but could be’ and God lets us coalesce the passion to chase it as a result of our faith aspiration.

In order to cheat the law of church life cycle, a church must biblically “recatalyze” when it encounters or is about to encounter plateau. Then it can overcome the impending inertia and press forward with another chapter of growth.