Rules forRadical Christians
Rules forWhat this work exists to do, and the faith it stands on.
Rules for Radical Christians exists to equip Christians with the strategic intelligence to recognize how the shaping institutions of our culture are captured — and to stand their ground inside God’s lines.
For two generations, a documented method has been used to capture the institutions that shape American life — the schools, the media, the government, the churches themselves. Most Christians feel the pressure but cannot name the method, and what cannot be named cannot be answered. We teach believers to see the field, name the tactics, and answer them — without ever adopting them. The antidote to Alinsky is not better Alinsky.
We do this through the book, the Capture Alerts desk, the school’s five disciplines, and the Shield Wall — a community where no believer stands alone, because isolation is the adversary’s oldest tactic and a wall of people who know each other’s names is its answer.
Our aim is not to seize institutions but to fill them with equipped believers: present, competent, truthful, and immovable — salt and light on every mountain where God has stationed His people.
(Matthew 5:13–16; 1 Peter 3:15)
We believe the Bible, in its Old and New Testaments, is the inspired and inerrant Word of God — true in all it affirms, sufficient for faith and life, and the final authority by which every teaching, tradition, and claim is tested.
(2 Timothy 3:16–17; Psalm 19:7; Matthew 4:4)
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — the Creator and Sustainer of all things, holy, just, loving, and sovereign over history.
(Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; Isaiah 46:9–10)
We believe in the full deity and full humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ: conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, sinless in life, crucified for our sins, bodily risen on the third day, ascended to the Father’s right hand, and returning in glory to judge the living and the dead.
(John 1:1–14; 1 Corinthians 15:3–8; Acts 1:11)
We believe salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone — the free gift of God, not a result of works, received by everyone who repents and believes the gospel. The believer’s standing before God rests entirely on the finished work of Christ, and therefore can be known.
(Ephesians 2:8–9; Romans 4:5; John 5:24; 1 John 5:13)
We believe the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, gives new life to all who believe, dwells in every believer, and empowers the church for holiness, witness, and courage.
(John 16:8; Titus 3:5; Acts 1:8)
We believe every human being is created in the image of God and therefore possesses inherent dignity and worth from conception to natural death — and that all have sinned and stand in need of the Savior.
(Genesis 1:27; Psalm 139:13–16; Romans 3:23)
We believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman, established by God before any human institution existed; that God created mankind male and female; and that the family is the first government, the first school, and the first church — the foundation every other institution is built upon.
(Genesis 1:27, 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; Ephesians 5:22–6:4)
We believe in the church — all who are born again through faith in Christ — gathered in local congregations for worship, the Word, and the ordinances, and sent into the world as salt and light. The gates of hell have not prevailed against her, and they will not.
(Matthew 16:18; Hebrews 10:24–25; Acts 2:41–47)
We believe the shaping institutions of culture — religion, family, education, government, media, arts, and business — are legitimate ground for Christian presence and faithful service. Withdrawal from them is not neutrality; it is surrender of ground God’s people were told to occupy until He comes. We seek presence, not dominion: believers who do excellent work, tell the truth at cost, and refuse the tactics of the adversary even when they would win.
(Luke 19:13; Matthew 5:13–16; Romans 12:21)
We believe in the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, and the everlasting Kingdom — and therefore we labor with urgency and without despair, because the outcome of the war is not in doubt.
(Revelation 21:1–5; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Titus 2:13)