The idea behind the base camp.
The Remnant exists because we believe something is missing in how Christian men are formed, supported, and sent. This is the thesis.
We are in a war.
As men, we are fighting from the moment we wake up until the moment we go to bed, and there is no place where we are not in battle.
If that were real warfare, and we were deployed on mission 24/7, eventually we would get tired and catch a bullet.
In the military, they have a base camp—a place to go back, rest, recover, and be in community. We are recreating that for civilian men.
A man needs fun.
Real, childlike, unguarded fun.
Everything is heavy. The job. The mortgage. The marriage. The kids. The news. The fight to stay holy. Somewhere along the way a man forgets how to play, and the weight of it all starts to crush the joy out of his faith. A man without fun becomes brittle. He white-knuckles his way through life and calls it discipline.
Heavy By Default
Modern manhood is wall-to-wall obligation. Provider. Protector. Pastor of the household. Without release, the weight turns into bitterness, numbness, or escape.
Childlike, Not Childish
Christ said come as a child. There is holiness in laughter, in competition, in standing on a tee box with brothers and giving each other grief. Joy is part of the inheritance, not a distraction from it.
Accountable Fun
The world's version of fun costs a man his marriage, his eyes, his integrity. We are building an environment where fun is honest, sober-minded, and shared with men who will pull you back if you drift.
The golf bay. The sauna. The lounge. Built so men can exhale.
Four pillars. One man fully formed.
Identity
Who he is in Christ. The cross gave him royal blood, a son of the King. He stops living beneath his inheritance and steps into it.
Authority
What comes with the inheritance. Sonship hands him real authority and the tools to wield it. Not earned by striving, given by the King.
Responsibility
What a co-heir is called to do. He picks up the tools and carries out the duty, over a marriage, children, a younger brother, the men around him.
Fear of the Lord
How he holds it all. Reverence is the posture under which a son uses his authority and walks out his responsibility. The beginning of wisdom.
Change a man. Change his marriage. Change how they parent. Change a family. Change a community. Change a city.
Five hundred men, each fighting for the people in front of them and the city around them, change a community. Enough men changed in enough cities, and the country shifts. This is how we believe revival actually scales.
One Man
Revival doesn't start in a building. It starts in the heart of one man, single or married, twenty or sixty.
His Marriage
A formed man leads his marriage. The standard he keeps in the gym becomes the standard he keeps at home.
His Family
If you change a marriage, you change how they parent. If you change how they parent, you change a family.
A Community
Enough families change a community.
Denver
Enough communities change a city. Five hundred men, fighting for the people in front of them, change Denver.
Enough men changed in enough cities, and the country shifts.
Denver is the prove-it. The model scales nationally.
Denver is one of the least churched major cities in America and one of the fastest-changing. It's a city where a Christian man's convictions are met with friction at work, in his kid's school, at the gym, on the street, and on his phone. Following Jesus here requires grit. The pressure is constant, the isolation is real, and most men carry it alone.
The cap is 500 men in Denver. The model is replicable. Once Denver proves the thesis, the property's equity becomes the down payment on the next city.
If it works in Denver, it works anywhere.