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The final session of The Engagement Project, Tour 9, Part 2 ("The Band of Brothers"), marks the climactic conclusion of Del Tackett’s 10-tour series, a sequel to The Truth Project. While the earlier tours focused on forming a biblical worldview, this installment transitions to practical, communal action. Tackett stresses that believers are not passive spectators in God’s redemptive story but active ambassadors commissioned to bring the gospel’s transforming power into their everyday spheres of influence. The session confronts major barriers that prevent Christians from fully engaging their world with God’s peace (shalom). These include pride (a self-centered “all-about-me” mentality), fear (especially in a culture hostile to biblical truth), isolation, unhealthy dependency, pervasive apathy, unaddressed sin, and a lack of vision for God’s grand narrative. Tackett diagnoses these obstacles as real-life hindrances that keep believers from fulfilling their royal calling.

Tackett calls believers to build deep, authentic relationships with those God has placed in their “Jerusalem”—their immediate neighbors, coworkers, family, and community. This requires intentionality: praying earnestly for these individuals and then acting on those prayers. Engagement must be characterized by grace, wisdom, and truth presented in a winsome way that reflects God’s character. Believers are urged to tear down relational walls, build trust through consistent love, and demonstrate God’s reign in everyday life. Tackett supports this call with sobering statistics from the series, showing rapid moral and cultural decline, and reminds participants that the church cannot remain complacent. Neighbors in spiritual, emotional, or relational need are not random; they are sovereignly positioned by God for divine encounters through His people. He anchors this in the example of King Josiah (2 Kings 22–23), who tore his robes in repentance upon rediscovering the law, challenging listeners: Are we grieved enough by our nation’s state to repent and act? Tackett shares a personal story of praying for a new neighbor behind his property and seeing God open doors through faithful prayer and kindness. The section reaches a high point with Ezekiel 37 (the Valley of Dry Bones), where God breathes life into lifeless skeletons to form a vast army. Tackett applies this to the modern church: though many feel spiritually dry or ineffective, God can revive His people with His Spirit to become salt and light once more.

Drawing from Romans 8, Tackett affirms that believers are “more than conquerors” through Christ, inseparable from God’s love, and empowered to overcome any obstacle. This leads into the final episode of the “King’s Order,” a devotional narrative summarizing the project’s themes of royal identity, sacrifice, and mission. Tackett issues a commissioning charge, reminding participants of their ambassadorial role. In a moving ceremonial moment, he presents each participant with an embassy plaque—a metal inscription declaring their home an “embassy of the kingdom of heaven.” These plaques serve as tangible reminders that every believer’s residence is an outpost of God’s rule, calling them to radical hospitality, prayerful engagement, and winsome witness.

Tour 9, Part 2 is more than a lesson—it is a call to arms for the church. In an age of isolation and cultural decay, Tackett urges believers to form unbreakable bonds of fellowship—“the Band of Brothers”—to support one another in reaching the lost with love and truth. As the series closes, hope triumphs: God is faithful, His Spirit breathes life, and ordinary Christians, empowered by grace, can change everything through intentional, prayer-fueled engagement.