What is NothinsGonnaStopIt!?

After Bill Jackson graduated from Wheaton College in 1975 he worked for the Christian youth organization called Campus Life. One day, in his intern class, a professor from Trinity Seminary went over the storyline of the Bible in three hours on an overhead projector. Bill was mesmerized. In his many years in the church he had never understood how the story worked until that day. Prior to that all he had had were pieces, random biblical stories without a context. That day on that overhead projector God gave him a glimpse of his future. He too would learn to tell The Story.

Fast forward to 1990. John Wimber, the national director of the Vineyard churches, had asked Bill to go over the storyline of the Bible at their pastor’s conference that summer in Denver. In five, half-hour talks Bill took the pastors from Genesis to Revelation painting the picture of God’s plan for human history that will culminate with every tongue, tribe, language and nation worshipping God at the heavenly throne. When he got to the book of Acts he began tracing the “nothing can hinder it” theme that is clearly one of Luke’s purposes in his story of the early church. To dramatize the telling he repeatedly asked, “Can anything stop the gospel?” The pastors began to shout, “Nothing’s going to stop it!” On the last day John got up on stage and announced that he wanted Bill to continue doing the talks throughout the Vineyard churches.

Since that time Bill has traveled around the United States and in various countries of the world sharing the storyline of the Bible in churches and lecture halls in a seven hour seminar that he has called NothinsGonnaStopIt!.

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