my three best friends.” “Oh, really?” Phil seemed a bit perturbed. “Who is your other best friend?” “I’ll never tell,” Mike responded with a sense of glee that he had caught Phil off guard. “Seriously,” Wes pressed on. “I think there’s something to the fact that New Hope just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Over the last year, I’ve been reading about the predictable life cycle that churches tend to travel, and some researchers find the twentieth year of a church is often the beginning of a