E-book: The Kingdom That Turned the World Upside Down

At the encouragement of Peter Goodgame (RedMoonRising) I bought and devoured “The Kingdom That Turned the World Upside Down.” Sam Pascoe is credited with observing: “Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise.” We in America have become saturated with Babylonian values and have come to view Christianity through that paradigm. How refreshing of David Bercot to refocus the “faith once delivered” without the materialistic underlayment. Here is the basic Kingdom message with the power to transform individual lives and entire cultures. Here is the impetus to get rid of all this “stuff” that consumes our lives, live free in Christ, and have an impact instead of merely being distressed spectators in this cultural freefall. If you are a committed Christian; if you really want to help turn this world — not “upside down” but rather — rightside up, I recommend this book without reservation but with one additional suggestion: you read it as part of a trilogy with Francis Chan’s “Crazy Love” and Roger Hertzler’s “Through the Eye of a Needle.” This is solid, Biblical thought, clearly expressed and presented with the exciting premise that “we can DO this!”

An absolutely life-changing book. As a young Christian raised in the mainstream Evangelical Church, for most of my life I’ve struggled to piece together Christianity as I saw it in the world around me with what I read in the Bible. My political opinions would swing wildly from right to left to right again; as an Evangelical politics and Christianity were intricately intertwined into everything I’d been taught. I knew very little of the Early Church or what they believed. Then I met an Anabaptist family and was instantly drawn to their simple, peaceful and non-political faith. They gave me a copy of this book (maybe they hoped it would quiet some of the questions I was firing at them!) and I could not put it down. The accounts of the various groups of Kingdom Christians, their suffering at the hands of the mainstream church and their conviction and nonresistance through it all had me in tears. This Kingdom as revealed in the teachings of Jesus, the Apostles and the early church fath

I am so glad to find that this book is available at a reduced cost for evangelistic purposes. I have bought many through another book store and from the beginning knew that I would give them free of charge to any honestly interested person. This is the book that I give out to people when I introduce them to our website http://www.theoriginalchristianchurch.org Thank you so much for providing an excellent tool to get people thinking about returning to the early church principles and lifestlye. In Christian Fellowship, Robert Cole

This book, like Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up, is a must read for anyone who seeks to understand the true Christian faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.