Energy spent only in indignation is wasted unless it fuels positive action.

Indignation gave rise to action.

For many years there has been teaching, preaching, writting, cajoling, protesting, and complaining about the collapse of the biblical consensus in our civilization and its institutions. 

Even in the White House aides have seen and experienced the advancing decay in frightening proximity. As a newspaper reporter and editorial page writer, you could have covered and analyzed the events that revealed the deepening of the crisis. As a pastor, you could have counseled hundreds of people over a 30-year period, and seen the tragic direct results of the appalling worldview and lifestyle arising from the new consensus and its ‘Brave New World.’

Slowly it is realized that these are issues of the Kingdom of God and its penetration into all infrastructure components of societies. Jesus Himself asserted that the goal of history is the advance of the Kingdom everywhere:

Matt 24:14: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations (Greek, ethne, “people groups”), and then the end (Greek, telos, “purpose,” “goal”) will come.”

You could also discover that you become weary from being in a perpetual state of indignation. It is easy not to like what was happening in the world around us, and to ourcountry and others. However, the perpetual indignation is robbing us of the joy of the Lord, and a sense of love for people for whom Christ died, even those who were bringing about the destruction of the biblical worldview.

That’s when we need to decide it was time to take positive action. That type of action led to the birth of Headwaters Leadership Institute.

The aim is simple: Pour out the renewing, restorative dynamic on the cultural stream. That dynamic is the Gospel of the Kingdom. It is catalytic, and launches transformation in whatever it touches. Carrying out this mission is a positive, thrilling task.

We are committed to the biblically-based Inside-Out/Bottom-Up strategy. We have tested it in a $2 billion a year secular institution, and seen amazing results. HLI will seek to ignite, not a mere “earthquake” of short-lived revolution, but a “tectonic shift” resulting in enduring transformation.

One of the strategic objectives is to conduct the E-Generation Seminar everywhere possible. The E-Generation is the “Elisha” generation. These are young people—high school juniors all the way up to and including college students—who will be sent into the future with a clearly established biblical worldview, a vision for God’s Kingdom and a passion to impact the five key spheres of society—Church, Family, Education, Governance, Marketplace—as ambassadors of the Kingdom.

There are many other facets of HLI still in gestation. But the E-Generation Seminar has already been tested, with great success.

At our age, we perhaps have one or more decades of active service ahead of us (by God’s grace, more maybe). We can think of no greater mission for this “last lap” than that of being used of God to contribute to the advance of His Kingdom in the world and the healing of the nations and their infrastructures by equipping those who will lead in the future!

Please join us in this great venture.