Dr. Bruce Cook is an apostolic and prophetic entrepreneur, business consultant, professor, author, and networker who has empowered many in the Body of Christ to pursue and fulfill their dreams.
He is passionate to see the Spirit of God move and for the Kingdom of God to advance and has hosted many round-tables, forums and summits bringing leaders of significant influence together. I have sought his wisdom and counsel on Kingdom projects and have known him to be amiable, supportive, humble, and always helpful. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Dr. Bruce Cook, Seattle, WA
Several well-known prophets in the Body of Christ have proclaimed 2018 as an extraordinary year of turnaround, open gates, restoration, recovery, harvest, fulfillment and abundance. I share this word as a confirmation of what lies before us and to encourage and strengthen the Body of Christ globally, and especially Christian entrepreneurs, business and financial leaders, government leaders and church leaders.
Those with a Gospel mandate know that this is a time of new strategies, new fields and planting for harvest. For those saints called to the marketplace, this is the time for developing plans to increase Kingdom influence over the 7 Mountains of cultural influence – arts & entertainment, business & economy, education, family, government & law, media and religion.
However, as God's leaders develop strategies and pathways to expand territory in their mountains or spheres of influence, it is important to remember that ultimate success depends upon how familiar they are with the Mountain of the Lord, also known as the 8th Mountain. It has been almost 43 years since August of 1975 when Loren Cunningham, Bill Bright, and Frances Schaeffer received separate but nearly identical visions of the 7 Mountains. Yet, in over four decades, significant and sustainable societal transformation has not yet happened. Why is that?
Relevance vs. Rapture Focus
| "An "abundant life" means a life well lived: a life of service to others, a life of influence and purpose, and destiny." |
For decades, the Church and many theologians have been asking and teaching a one-dimensional question: Are you rapture ready? The result has been a Church that, to a large extent in modern times, has viewed and focused on Heaven as something exclusively reserved for the future and not available to us in the present as well. Fortunately, that attitude and mindset has begun to change in recent years, in part through the writings and videos of Rick Joyner, Bill Johnson, Lance Wallnau, Johnny Enlow, Kathie Walters, Kat Kerr, Shawn Bolz and many others, and media ministries such as those of Patricia King, Steve Shultz, Steve Strang and Sid Roth.
Moreover for the most part with a few notable exceptions, the modern Church has viewed and treated culture, the marketplace and government, as dangerous, secular and tainted. The prevailing attitude has been that culture is to be tolerated and endured as a necessary evil, and contact or involvement with it is to be avoided or minimized as much as possible.
Where are the Cultural Champions Today?
Not surprisingly, modern culture has experienced a significant spiritual deterioration and moral decline over the last 75 years, and the Church has lost influence and relevance in the eyes of society and cultural elites. God is not a one-dimensional being, and neither are His Kingdom and the world we live in one-dimensional. Where are the Martin Luthers, the George Washingtons, the William Wilberforces, the Abraham Kuypers, the Abraham Lincolns, the Harriet Tubmans, the Martin Luther King Jr's of this age?
Fortunately, God is raising up... (continue reading)
