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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This isn’t your youth group’s short-term mission trip. It won’t be accomplished in weeks, months, or even years. This will require decades, and likely generations. The goal is simple. Take the whole town for King Jesus. Join us.
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0:00.0 | One question I often receive is this. Great. Postmill, Theonomy. They're true doctrines from the Scripture, |
0:25.6 | but how do I practically apply these doctrines in my everyday life? What does it look like to be a theonomist |
0:34.6 | and someone with hopeful eschatology on a Monday afternoon. |
0:40.3 | See, some people appear to only be interested in doing the hashtag dat post mill in a Twitter battle. |
0:51.3 | But they don't seem to be particularly interested in living out post-millennial |
0:57.1 | eschatology in their everyday life on the ground. So how do these doctrines apply? What does it look |
1:05.8 | like on a day-to-day basis to have hopeful eschatology in practice looks like building. |
1:36.3 | It looks like building families with husbands and wives who have healthy biblical marriages |
1:42.6 | that mirror the eternal marriage between Christ and the church. |
1:47.0 | And it looks like fathers and mothers who view their children as blessings rather than burdens. |
1:54.0 | Beyond the family, hopeful eschatology looks like building schools and starting businesses, planting churches. |
2:03.6 | And yes, on occasion, hopeful eschatology on the ground looks like hosting conferences that have the ability to draw and attract like-minded Christians from all over the world in order to see what God might be up to |
2:20.3 | in a particular place and at a particular time. So hopeful eschatology means we build. But the first |
2:28.8 | question to answer when it comes to building is where? So in December of 2020, |
2:50.0 | eight families moved with my wife and I to Georgetown, Texas. |
2:55.6 | We took about 20 people, kids and all, to this area of the United States. |
3:01.6 | Now, why Georgetown, Texas? |
3:04.6 | Well, this has to do with what Jim Wilson referred to as the decisive point, a place that |
3:11.4 | is both winnable and significant if it could be won. |
3:17.0 | Think about Manhattan, New York. |
3:19.5 | It would certainly be significant if it could be won for Jesus, but it doesn't seem particularly |
3:25.5 | winnable, at least at this time. And think, on the other hand, of the proverbial Timbuk |
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