Not a lecture. Three real situations from the room, worked live: what is being done to the person, what to say, what the law in your state says, and what to do Tuesday. The bridge from the Word to the culture, built in front of you.
For: Congregations, Wednesday nights, Saturday mornings, men's and women's groups. Sixty to ninety minutes, thirty to three hundred people.
What the room walks out with
- Three situations from their own room answered in full — the technique, the words to say, the law, the next step — and the pattern they share.
- The one sentence to have ready before the form arrives, and the decision to make before anyone asks.
- Their own free first Ask, so the night it happens to them the answer is there.
- The room for their own city and state, and the church's own link, so nobody in the congregation stands alone in it.
The talk, movement by movement
Movement 1
The gap, in ten minutes
The church preaches the Word on Sunday. On Tuesday the world hands a believer a form, a training, a notice, a policy, and nobody ever taught them the sentence in between. One alert from that week on the screen, the tactic named, the counter from the book. This is the gap, and it is the same gap on every mountain.
Movement 2
Situation one: work
Collected from the room by card at the door, or sent in ahead of time through the page, names removed. William reads it aloud and puts it into Ask on the screen, and the room watches the answer come back: the technique being run, the holes in the institution's argument, what their own document gives the person, the words to say in order, Scripture, and the public record of the law in that state. He adds the counter-rule from the book as each part lands.
Movement 3
Situation two: a school
The same drill on a parent's or a teacher's situation: the notice with no opt-out, the plan a teacher is told to follow, the club told to drop its statement. The room sees that the method is the same and the counter is the same, and that the words change only in the particulars.
Movement 4
Situation three: church or town
A congregation's own bind, or a public meeting's. Here the rally call is shown: when an alert calls for action, the officials actually deciding it are named with their public channels and the exact message to send, and it goes to the members standing on that ground. The Shield Wall room for their city is opened on the screen.
Movement 5
The equipment
Everyone leaves with a card: the one sentence to have ready, their free first Ask, the four-minute assessment, and the room for their city. A hosting church leaves with a link of its own, a line for the bulletin, and a sending Sunday it can run every August. The close is the same as every talk: the words to say, and where to go when it happens.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Bring a situation
Situations come two ways: on a card at the door the night of the session, or sent in here ahead of time. Both are anonymous. Three get worked in the room.
No session is scheduled yet
Situations are taken for a scheduled session only. When one is on the calendar, this form opens. Until then, your first Ask is free at rulesforradicalchristians.com/ask, tonight.
For the room
Hosts: put these on a slide or a handout and the room opens them on their phones. PNG for a deck, SVG for print; the downloads carry the address under the code.
Formats
A sixty- to ninety-minute working session, hosted by a congregation: Wednesday night, Saturday morning, or a men's or women's gathering. A screen and a microphone; the host collects cards at the door. Available totravel nationwide; hosts cover travel expenses.
Also on the roster: Seven Mountains, One War · Everyone Has a Plan for America Except the Church · The Capture Playbook — the three talks bookable individually or as a series, and the working session on its own.