Click here to read Dr. Ralph Winter's article, "Reconsecration to a Wartime Lifestyle".

Most Christians live as though there was not a war to win or lose. We few live as though there is a war to win. Lives are at stake. The adversary does not fight fairly. In order to do our part to win the war, we are reconsecrating our lives to live a “wartime lifestyle.” We are volunteering for active duty. We are taking the side of the oppressed against an unseen adversary.

It seems to us that to do our part to "overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21) we must live only on what we need and give the rest of our income where it is needed most. We call this a wartime lifestyle. In World War II Americans lived a wartime lifestyle to defeat the most dangerous enemies of the twentieth century.  Click here to read Dr. Ralph Winter's article, "Reconsecration to a Wartime Lifestyle".

We believe “the whole world is in the hands of the evil one” (I John 5:19). But thank God, Jesus came “to destroy the works of the devil” (I John 3:8). Daily we do our part to destroy the works of the devil if we overcome evil with good.

One man who lived the wartime lifestyle was Francis of Assisi (died 1222). He lived only on what he needed and he gave the rest to where it was needed most. He prayed that his whole life would be “an instrument of God’s peace” Click here to pray St. Francis’ prayer of reconsecration to a wartime lifestyle.

We are members of societies that do our part to win the war by pledging to one another to live only on what we need and to give the rest of what we have to where it is needed most.

We pledge to make our incomes purpose-driven. We want to make our incomes glory-driven. We want to free up our money, lots of money, for the king’s purposes.

THE NON-ESSENTIAL OF LIVING

Roberta Winter writes what Ralph Winter warned when they met:

“I want you to know I’m a rather . . . uh . . . radical person,” Ralph told me. . . ."

Click here to read Roberta Winter's “The Non-Essentials of Life”.

Call us crazy, but we have knelt before the throne and pledged our lives, our sacred honor and our income to His treasury.

"Until you believe that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for." - John Piper

"The number one reason why prayer malfunctions in the hands of believers is that they try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom." - John Piper.

To download John Piper's life-changing message, "Prayer; the Work of Missions" go to www.desiringgod.org/library/ and search "Prayer: The Work of Missions."