ABOUT REAL TRUTH MATTERS
Pursuing Christ as the Gospel
Doctrinally rich, Evangelistically urgent, Experientially real.
Our Mission
Why This Ministry Exists
You have sat in the pew. You know the doctrines. You can recite what you believe about Christ, and on a good day, you mean every word of it. And yet you have left a thousand services the same way you arrived — unmoved, unmet, vaguely aware that something the Bible promises was meant to be yours and somehow never has been.
We know that distance. We have lived in it ourselves.
Real Truth Matters exists for one reason: to close that distance — to lead men and women out of a Christianity they merely understand and into a Christ they actually know. Started in 2008, RTM is the ministry of Evangelist Michael Durham, whose burden is not to add to the noise of religious information. It is to fan a fascination with Jesus Christ that takes hold of the whole man — mind, heart, and will together. The Word of God was never meant to inform us without moving us, or to move us without sending us. Yet in most circles, one of the three goes missing, and we are left with a faith that is either correct and cold or warm and untethered. We are after all three at once — the old, supernatural Christianity of the New Testament, before we domesticated it.
Too often, truth has been severed from its power. We believe the Gospel must be proclaimed in the power of the Holy Spirit before it can do its work on the whole man — and that the same Spirit who first gave it is willing to give it still.
We make no apology for wanting more than we have been handed. The hunger itself is a gift, and we mean to follow it all the way home.
What We Are After
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The Gospel, Whole, and Unedited
In our day, the Gospel has been quietly replaced — sometimes by ritual, sometimes by rules, sometimes by a prayer prayed once and never returned to. We mean to preach it as the Bible gives it, adding nothing and removing nothing. True revival waits on it.
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A Life of Abiding in Christ
Most true Christians live far below the power Christ has made available to them. He did not die merely to spare us hell; He died to free us from wasted, self-powered lives. To walk with Him is to abide in Him daily — to live, as we have come to call it, in desperate dependence on the One who is our life.
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Christ As Our Highest Treasure
When the mind sees Him truly, and the heart feels Him fully, the will bends toward Him in worship. And here is the mercy hidden in it: in His greatest glory we find our greatest joy. The two were never meant to be rivals.
If any of this describes something you have carried a long time, you are in the right place. Start with a sermon, or with the writing — and come hungry.