Welcome to Radical Middle Ministries

Radical Middle Ministries (RMM) is an organization on mission to provide resources to equip the Church for the work of The Great Commission.  The late Bill ‘Jax’ Jackson founded RMM and his life’s work is the heartbeat behind RMM.  The resources on this site are either the direct works of Jax or works similar in nature to the works Jax poured his life into.

The ‘radical middle’ is the beautiful intersection of the Word and the Spirit.  As empowered evangelicals we are grounded in the Word of God while listening to the Spirit of God as He leads us into mission.  Radical middle people want to be about both the Word and the works of Jesus.  Jesus both proclaimed the reality of the kingdom of God and demonstrated the power of the kingdom.  Our call is to go and do likewise.

Called by a number of names such as empowered evangelicalism or the Third Wave movement, this group now spans the globe in multiple denominations such as the Vineyard, the Anglican Mission, Acts 29, Antioch Network, New Wine and Soul Survivor.

In a plenary session at the Vineyard pastors’ conference in 1989, Vineyard theologian, Don Williams, made a prophetic statement. While talking about this new empowered evangelical paradigm, Don said, “all the books need to be rewritten now.” What he meant was that the Vineyard was a part of an emerging third position in-between Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism that would call for new thinking, new literature and new books written by those who not only affirm that in Christ the end of the ages has dawned but are committed to calling for the kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven to “do the stuff” of the kingdom as John Wimber used to say. Kingdom thinkers must therefore, by definition, be also practitioners of the kingdom who step out to take risks to win the lost, heal the sick, deliver the demonized, and reach out to care for and disciple the poor. This is why this movement has been associated with signs and wonders. We enact and confirm the in-break of God’s reign over his realm as we await the full consummation at the end of the age at the return of Christ.

The resources on this site, therefore, will reflect those that endeavor to write and sing about doing the things Jesus did. They will strive and lead the way in walking in the radical middle between Word and Spirit. Peter told his listeners on the day of Pentecost that the Spirit of prophecy, as predicted in Joel 2.28-32, had been fulfilled. Peter then went on to show that God himself had pledged that his people would receive revelatory information in association with the Spirit that was going to be “in them.” This promise was not just for the apostles but was for “you and your children” (Is 59.21). As John Wimber used to say, “everyone gets to play” and those contributing to this site will be those who will show the way forward in the development and practice of kingdom theology. This does not preclude Christians from having radical encounters with the Spirit to empower us for various kinds of service—indeed they will—but the key is embracing Jesus axiom expressed by John Wimber so well, faith is spelled r-i-s-k. God will be true to his Word and back up those who step out in faith and take risks to advance the kingdom. They will know what the Father is doing (Jn 5.19) by the Spirit and to release God’s kingdom in authority.