Taking Whole Towns For King Jesus explores practical hopeful eschatology, detailing the December 2020 relocation of eight families to Georgetown, Texas, a strategic "decisive point" near Austin. The initiative established Covenant Bible Church, growing from 20 to 200 worshippers, and plans St. George Academy for fall 2024. Through Right Response Ministries' three wings—local church, education, and media—the strategy urges Christians to physically link arms in "purple places," moving beyond online debates to build families and businesses where Jesus rules all nations. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hopeful Eschatology Looks Like Building00:02:12
One question I often receive is this Great, Postmill, Theonomy, they're true doctrines from the Scripture, but how do I practically apply these doctrines in my everyday life?
What does it look like to be a Theonomist and someone with hopeful eschatology on a Monday afternoon?
See, some people appear to only be interested in doing the hashtag Dat. Post mill in a Twitter battle.
But they don't seem to be particularly interested in living out post millennial eschatology in their everyday life on the ground.
So, how do these doctrines apply?
What does it look like on a day-to-day basis to have hopeful eschatology?
Hopeful eschatology in practice looks like building.
It looks like building families with husbands and wives who have healthy biblical marriages that mirror the eternal marriage between Christ and the church.
And it looks like fathers and mothers who view their children as blessings rather than burdens.
Beyond the family, hopeful eschatology looks like building schools and starting businesses, planting churches.
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 in a particular place and at a particular time.
So, hopeful eschatology means we build.
Taking Whole Towns For Jesus00:07:45
But the first question to answer when it comes to building is where?
So in December of 2020, eight families moved with my wife and I to Georgetown, Texas.
We took about 20 people, kids and all, to this area of the United States.
Now, why Georgetown, Texas?
Well, this has to do with what Jim Wilson referred to as the decisive point a place that is both winnable and significant if it could be won.
Think about Manhattan, New York.
It would certainly be significant if it could be won.
For Jesus, but it doesn't seem particularly winnable, at least at this time.
And think, on the other hand, of the proverbial Timbuktu, a place that has a population of 247 living souls, a place that we could move into with 50 people to plant a church and win it for King Jesus in a fortnight.
It's winnable, but not necessarily strategic.
See, we're in it for the long haul.
This is a war.
And it's not going to be won overnight.
But there are integral battles along the way.
Some of the battles are not winnable.
And some of the battles that are winnable are so small and insignificant, it would be better if we take those troops and bring them in as reinforcements to the decisive point.
Think the Battle of Bunkers Hill.
It's not necessarily the biggest battle, but it's the kind of battle that's both.
Winnable and significant.
It's the kind of battle that ultimately has the potential of redirecting the outcome of the entire war.
Georgetown, Texas, seems to be like Bunker's Hill.
Its proximity to Austin, Texas, which is horribly progressive, makes it significant.
In about 35 minutes, by taking one of the tolls, you can move from Georgetown to Austin City proper and work for Elon Musk.
And yet, at the same time, Georgetown, Texas is in a separate county from Austin.
It's in Williamson County.
The way I like to think about it is this we're close enough to pick up on the ministry and economic opportunities of a large progressive city like Austin.
But at the same time, conveniently just far enough away to not have our police defunded.
So in December of 2020, eight families moved with my wife and I. To Georgetown, Texas.
We took about 20 people, kids and all, to this area of the United States.
Now, what's our goal?
Our goal, by God's grace, first and foremost, was to plant a church, Covenant Bible Church.
See, the church is HQ.
The church of Jesus Christ is the beachhead, the tip of the spear.
We can't do this without planting churches, but we can't do this by exclusively.
Planting churches.
The church is step one.
And over the last two and a half years, by God's grace, we went from eight families, about 20 people in all, to about 200 people worshiping the triune God on the Lord's Day.
Covenant Bible Church is quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with.
The church is step one.
But many of the Reconstructionists and theonomists of old argue that education is the very next thing.
That Christians must recapture.
The next step, by God's grace, is starting a classical Christian school.
St. George Academy is currently in the works, and by God's grace, as we continue to plan and prepare and raise funds, the goal is to open our doors in the fall of 2024.
Beyond that, we're doing things like this filming documentaries, starting podcasts, trying to grow our reach and influence through Right Response Ministries.
As of now, these are the three primary wings of our attack.
To win Georgetown for Jesus Christ, the local church, a school for educating children, and media through Right Response Ministry.
This Georgetown project, taking the city for Jesus, it's not going to happen overnight.
This is not a five month project.
This is not a five year project.
This is likely a 50 year project.
We need recruitments in places that are winnable.
There are conservative strongholds, deep red states, and there are progressive hellholes, deep blue states, but there are also purple places.
There are places that have not yet been overtaken by the enemy, and yet they're still weak.
There is something living there.
There's a chance, but it's vulnerable.
These are the places where we need recruitments.
These are places that are significant, that we can't afford to lose, yet still.
Winnable.
We can take them over time.
There are people, albeit few and far between, but there are people committed right now to taking whole towns for Jesus.
So find them, join them.
They need recruitments.
Again, this is not going to happen over the course of a few weeks, months, or even years.
This is a multiple generational project.
We need people who are in it for the long haul.
The sons of Issachar knew the times.
There were times of peace and there were times of war.
Right now, the battle cry, the common denominator where Christians can link arms and agree and fight together is this.
Of all?
Is Jesus King of all?
Is Jesus ruling now?
And is Jesus ruling here?
Is it good for nations to submit to the Lord Jesus?
Is it good for all of society, every single element, to be Christianized?
People who are like minded in that regard need to be linked up, not just on YouTube or Twitter land.
But again, in person, on the ground, flesh and blood, brick and mortar.
I think that right now, for our generation, this is the call.
The question is are you willing to do whatever it takes to answer it?