Friday, September 19, 2008

The Image of the Revolution

As established in my last post, a revolution is underway. This is a revolution that will affect all aspects of life, ending with, I believe, the next Great Awakening (and the last). Statistically, twenty-million people already know and are part of this movement. That brings me to a question: Where are these people?? What do they look like?? I hope to shed some light to these and other questions that will be answered in the posts to follow. Hopefully, I’ll have more readers by then. I’ll tie this in a little farther down.

So, what do revolutionaries look like?? A better question would be, what do they not look like? When I think of this, my mind is taken to Revelation 7. Verses 9 and 10 say this:
After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried in a loud voice:
“Salvation belongs to our God,
Who sits on the throne,
and to the Lamb.”

This, my friends, is the image of the revolution. The revolutionaries will come from everywhere. I mentioned that there are twenty-million people who are on board. Ladies and gentleman, that’s just in the U.S. There is no way to really know how many have come on board from around the world. Therein lies the problem. We need to seek out and establish relationships with the revolutionaries around us. I can guarantee you, they are right beside you. Denomination has no deciding factor in who’s a part of this movement. Talk to your Christian friends about the change needed in the church, and listen carefully to their response. You will know them by their response.

Christians are sick and tired of religiosity. They are sick of three choir songs, meet and greet/ offering, two praise songs, and a three point, thirty-minute sermon ending in a general prayer for all. Now, there has to be order, and revolutionaries aren’t against that. What needs to be done away with is routine. Order<>Routine. The church is sick and in need of major change.

Find those who agree with what I just said. They are the image of the revolution.