Narrow Road Ministries started through several mens' passions to seek God’s face, no matter what effects it might have on our personal lives and careers.  After reaching a perceived success in corporate and ministry life, God called us to ask the questions, “Is this the success you were looking for when you accepted my Son?  Have you found the desires of your heart in the successes you have been given?  Have you had your fill of Me?”  These questions revealed the deep longing still in our hearts to experience and find God.  Even after all the years of faithful ministry and Christian living, we were left exposed to the truth that Jesus was not to be found in the things we had been chasing after for so long… the very things popular Christian culture was often telling us to chase.

Through many months of endless nights of prayer, God was revealing to us a greater need for Him, and a greater passion to find Him than we had ever experienced. 

It was in these months of weeping for God’s face and battling for joy to return to our lives that God picked up our very lives by His hand and held them completely upside down for what seemed an eternity…waiting for Him to set us upright and place us somewhere… anywhere… just down.  We didn’t care where after too long.  We wouldn’t even try to bargain the circumstances with Him.  We wanted God… and we wanted to be planted down where we would find Him.

The narrow road is the path Jesus walks.  It is the only path that this new life we’ve been given can be walked on, and the only path on which Jesus can be found.  God was and continues to show us that any path which includes the fulfilling of “our rights,” whether American rights, political rights, educational rights, employment rights, you name it…. the presence of and intimate fellowship with Jesus is not found on that path.  Jesus abandoned His rights to become human and die for us.  Jesus tells us that we must walk where He walks to find Him.  All our rights to this life are foolishness once we die to this world and are raised up in the resurrected life of Jesus Christ!  We are new creations!  We are to look and be different from the rest of the world.  We are to seek God’s kingdom and righteousness, abandoning our rights so we may live for Jesus Christ and His purposes alone.

God set us down when He knew our hearts were ready to abandon our rights to the lives we had known for so long.  Within nine months of that time we had resigned our positions with our employers and moved to where God pointed.  He asked us to, “not only share the gospel with them but our lives as well.”  He set us down on the narrow road, and we've been striving to walk it ever since.