Banning Liebscher - Jesus Culture: Living a Life That Transforms the World

I dedicate this book to SeaJay
I know your name

SeaJay, Im the most blessed man alive. God was good to me when He brought you into my life. Thanks for all your support and sacrifice and for believing in my dreams. You truly are amazing and the love of my life.

Mom and Dad, thanks for always being my biggest fans, loving me, and speaking identity into me.

My three beautiful kids, Ellianna, Raya, and Lake, I could not have written this book without your support. Lets change the world together.

Brandy, thanks for getting enough education for both of us. You are a great sister.

Bill, thanks for allowing me to stand on your shoulders. Your life has been the greatest message I have ever heard. Thanks for taking a chance on a young man.

Kris, thanks for coming alongside me and believing in me. Your encouragement, wisdom, and friendship mean the world to me.

Danny, you are a gift from God. I shudder to think of where I would be without you in my life. I am forever grateful for all that you have done for me and my family.

Dann, what do I say? I am your Padawan. Thanks for being my best mentor, professor, and friend. Thanks also for letting me interrupt your life over the last 13 years.

Lou, you are my Martin Luther King Jr. I thank God for linking our hearts together. You have placed courage inside of me and your life inspires me in ways you may never know. Thanks for showing me why Im alive.

Cindy, the Mama of Revivalists, your encouragement, support, and example are massive in my life. Thanks for pouring into me.

Allison, thank you for being patient with this first-time author. Words cannot express how grateful I am for your help in getting this book ready. I pray all of your dreams come true.

A.J., thanks for making me look like a genius. Your help was inestimable, effulgent, and resplendent.

Carol, thanks not only for your help with the book but also your encouraging words. This words of affirmation guy appreciates it.

Pam, you have been such an encouragement for me to write. Over the past few years your voice has inspired me to keep going and keep believing that I can do it. Thank you for the help with the book, but beyond that thank you for encouraging me to write.

Darren, thanks for all of your research.

I have been blessed over the years with the greatest teams in the world: Jerry, Erica, Nathan, Kim, Chris, Melissa H., Brandon, Ben, and the rest of the current team, as well as Linda, Gabe, Melissa, Loni, Ken, and the rest of our past team. Thank you for all that you do and have done. My dreams are being fulfilled, and it is because of your sacrifice and passion. I love working with you all.

Last but not least, this book has been formed over the last 13 years because of the lives of some of the most radical young revivalists Ive ever encountered. All of those at Legacy, Awakening, and Jesus Culturethanks for burning and being the message.

God is raising up an army of young, on-fire revivalists destined to awaken the nations of the earth. Jesus Culture gives them their marching orders to set on fire a new generation of passionate change agents.

CINDY JACOBS
Co-founder and President, Generals International

Read this book and youll be changed. Live this book and the world will changed too.

PETE GREIG
Co-founderThe 24/7 Prayer Movement
Director of Prayerat Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, London
FacilitatorCampus America initiative

Jesus Culture is not just another book about revival. The pages cry out for change with the kind of urgency that makes you want to jump out of your chair and onto your knees. It rekindles a passion that I believe should be in the heart of every Christian who is intimately connected to Jesus and eager to see the world experience the life-changing power of the Savior. Pastor Banning brings all the essential elements of revival into balance: the importance of spiritual authority while allowing a burning love for Jesus to develop into a passion for prayer to not only see but demonstrate the supernatural. I would recommend this book for any young person or pastor alike, wanting to be reminded again of the cry of Gods heart for cities saved and entire nations turned to Him.

JUDAH SMITH
PastorGeneration Church, an exploding
youth ministry of The City Church, Seattle, WA

In a deteriorating world system of false foundation, there arises a God breed of modern-day John the Baptizers willingly and fully committed to Christ and His Kingdom culture no matter what! Banning Liebscher is one such champion leader in the emerging youth generation, crying out to the generations of the nations and preparing the way of the Lord. This is a must-read prophetic and instructional manual to inform and equip you for what is ahead.

DR. CHAHN
Senior PastorHarvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA
PresidentHarvest International Ministry

God always provides a prophetic voice for each generation to mobilize and equip them for their destiny. Banning Liebscher is one of those voices for this generation. Few have the privilege to experience a sustained move of God that transforms communities such as Redding, California. Jesus Culture contains real, life-changing experiences and lessons that will both inspire and equip those who feel the call as a new-breed revivalist. I highly recommend that anyone who hungers for a move of God devour this book.

RICHARD CRISCO
Senior PastorRochester First Assembly of God,
Rochester, Mi
Former Pastor of Student Ministries
Brownsville Assembly of God, Pensacola, Fl

This book gives a generation permission to live a powerful life with God. It shows you that there is freedom to pursue your passions and impact the culture around you for the Kingdom. There is revelation in this book that will go into your foundation and accelerate you into your destiny. But underlying all of it, it inspires you to pursue intimacy with Him.

KELLY CLARK
Professional half-pipe snowboarder
Winter Olympic Gold Medalist,
and winner of two Winter X Games Gold Medals

Above the incessant noise of human activity
we have heard the sound of marching
that tells us God is on the move.

ARTHUR WALLIS

It is God revealing himself to man
in awful holiness and irresistible power.
It is such a manifest working of God
that human personalities are overshadowed,
and human programs abandoned.
It is man retiring into the background
because God has taken the field.
It is the lord making bare his holy arm,
and working in extraordinary power
on saint and sinner.

ARTHUR WALLIS

One of my greatest joys is to help others find their purpose in life. I wish I could say it happens often; it doesnt. But when it does, it is so wonderful that I actually end with up a greater sense of personal completeness. We are all strengthened when someone we care about succeeds. Such is the case in my personal involvement with Banning Liebscher. He has said such an absolute yes to God, and he has stepped into the wonderful discovery of his calling much earlier in life than most and with a depth that is rare in people twice his age. And we are stronger because of it.

I did something a bit unusual for me while reading this book. I tried to remove myself and my knowledge of Banning from the picture as much as possible. I then pondered over the material as though it were the writings of a highly respected revivalist in their 70s, still burning for God. I was amazed. It still fit. It was then I knew that what I felt about this book was more than a personal bias. The maturity and depth of Bannings ministry is well represented in