The Secret Sauce of Movements

It takes the wrong sort of commitment to spent eight years in solitary rather than renounce your membership of the Aryan Brotherhood.

Troop was lost. Lost to his wife. Lost to his mother and son. Lost to himself. Lost to the world. God rescued him out of darkness. Christ died for his many sins. Christ rose to give him new life. Troop is a miracle of God’s grace.

For most of his life Troop had been a “believer.” Christ was his “Savior,” but his faith was not genuine, it was never expressed in obedience.

With Christ as his Savior and Lord, Troop endured another six years of solitary and a life and death struggle with cancer.

I love what his praying grandmother told him, “You're not going to quit! I don't care what the doctor said. You're going back to get treatment and let Jesus do what Jesus does!”

God rescued this man and is recreating him in the image of his Son. It takes time. There are no shortcuts. It’s slow.

Movements multiply because there are so many Troop stories happening at the same time.

Trained in some simple tools and strategies Troop went back into maximum security, and onto death row as a disciple maker and church planter. Now gang members, murderers and rapists are beginning the same journey out of darkness, and they’re bringing others with them. They’re gathering around God’s Word. They’re ministering to their neighbors.

A movement of God is a work of God through his Word and the Holy Spirit. It’s a miracle. Yet God uses a man like Troop sitting alone in solitary, day after day, for so many years. Waiting.

Previously: 349-Troop’s Story