{"id":39551,"date":"2017-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/domino-chain-reaction-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:04:02","slug":"domino-chain-reaction-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/domino-chain-reaction-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Domino Chain Reaction of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em class=\"citation\">Chase the Lion<\/em>, Mark Batterson writes that in 1983 Lorne Whitehead published an article about the domino chain reaction. You can picture it in your mind, can&#39;t you? You knock over a domino, and it sets off a chain reaction that can knock down hundreds of dominoes in a matter of seconds. But the unique significance of Whitehead&#39;s research was discovering that a domino is capable of knocking over a domino that is one-and-a-half times its size. So a two-inch domino can topple a three-inch domino. A three-inch domino can topple a four-and-a-half-inch domino. And a four-and-a-half-inch domino can topple a &hellip; well, you get the point.<\/p>\n\n<p>By the time you get to the eighteenth domino, you could knock over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Of course, it&#39;s leaning so that&#39;s not fair. The twenty-third domino could knock over the Eiffel Tower. And by the time you get to the twenty-ninth domino, you could take down the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the realm of mathematics, there are two types of progression: linear and geometric. Linear progression is two plus two equals four. Geometric progression is compound doubling. Two times two equals four. If you take thirty linear steps, you&#39;re ninety feet from where you started. 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