The POTF campaign succeeds because it does not depend on human will power, organization, or technology. It depends on seven game-changing acts of God. Each act brings one blessing of the future within reach for us in the present. The five-level cascade works like this:

 

• Each game-changing event (first level)

• brings a different gift to humanity (second level)

• that changes our outlook (third level)

• and our view of ourselves in God's grace process (fourth level).

• We are becoming authentic POTF (fifth level), not perfect yet, but visibly on the way, carried along by the strong current of God's grace.

​

In this five-level process we are not trying to work our way up a mountain of God's commands. We are discovering how exhilarating it feels to "shoot the rapids" of the cascade of God's grace. We realize how God's game-changing acts in the Bible opened new opportunities for us to step into God's future.

 

To see how the Cascade of Grace works, let's look at the first of SYNC's seven game-changers, the creation of the world. This is the event that is the focus of Life Season in the SYNC annual cycle. The other six game-changers all work the same way through the same five levels. 

 

Top level of the diagram:  

There was no human life, no world, no nothing. Then God changed the game. He created the universe. He created life, including human life.

​

Second level:

The ancient game-changer comes down to us today as a gift -- the blessing of life itself. We wouldn't be here now if creation hadn't happened way back then.

​

Third level:

When we get that idea, that life is a gift from a personal God and not just a chance happening through the laws of physics and chemistry, we become grateful. It's a natural response to a fantastic gift. 

​

Fourth level:

Our gratitude motivates us to "go with it," that is, to SYNC our lives with God's intentions when he created the life we enjoy. We start seeing ourselves as life-bringers for the good of everybody. We promote life, we liven things up, we live life that is real life, and we bring life to those in our world.

​

Bottom level:

We are authentic people. We look like the Messianic future! We resemble Jesus the Messiah, promoting life and being life-givers.

 

Our motives are pure like his. We are not trying to score points with God or to impress anyone. We do not take any credit for our goodness because we know it didn't come from us. It came from the flow of the grace of God, just the way he intended when he did the game-changer in the first place. 

 

In other words, the Messiah's POTF campaign strategy is working. His intended future is arriving as surely as water flows downhill. And we get to be in on the fulfillment of his intentions! We get to arrive in the beautiful pool of the future below the cascade, the pool of genuine humanity and genuine goodness, by the grace of God.​ 

​​