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why Revolution?

Revolution impacts more people more quickly, more profoundly than any other social change. Revolution scares people.

But the Jesus Revolution isn’t scary. His Revolution strikes like lightening and sweeps across continents because people love it!

Wonder if Christianity could sweep across America and transform millions of lives and take center-stage and capture the attention and hearts of people everywhere?

Wonder if all this could change in five or six years?

Wonder if Christianity became so popular, your friends kept asking to hear more about it when they discover you’re a Christian?

Wonder if Christianity became so hot that when people convert, all their friends and family join because they too wanted to become Christians?

Wonder if you were at a bar with a few friends and your conversation sounded like this:

You: “I became a Christian last night,”

Friend: “I was just thinking about that myself…”

Another Friend: “What’s it like? I’ve always wondered about it…”

It used to be that way, once. Christians were:

…praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. Acts 2:47 (NASB)

…all the people had high regard for them. Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women. Acts 5:13-14 (NLT)

Victory creates joy. One of the great themes in Acts is the Revolutionary Joy of the early Christians, because  they were winners.¹ In China they see this contagious joy today —when 100 million Chinese abandon atheism, defy the government and turn to Christianity, it only happens when people are having tremendously-exciting conversations about Christianity!

Christian Revolution is not scary, it’s contagious. Christians are the proud owners of the world’s first, most-successful and longest-lasting Revolution. Why would any Christian allow this prestigious position to be castigated and smeared by propaganda? “Christianity” is synonymous with “institutions” and “inhumanity” today.

Revolution never begins so contagiously, this is true. Until something clicks, there ain’t no lickety-split, and it’s a struggle.

Just because Revolution starts slow doesn’t make it a pipe-dream. The most unlikely people start Revolutions in the most unlikely places because Revolution is so very likely in the Kosmos: vast populations of utterly-bored, restless people feel enslaved and resent life in The Empire’s “clone army” (like “Star Wars”), just waiting to die. (Doesn’t Corporate America mold its employees into clone armies?)

People would love to fight for a cause, if they had a winning cause. Why are Christians so shy and embarrassed about The Cause? Because Christians are frightened by the Shock of Culture Shock, and it has a history. Read about it.

Footnotes:

1. “One of the subthemes of Acts is joy, because a victorious church is a joyful one. This is seen in verses 46-47 and numerous other times (5:41; 8:8, 39; 11:23; 12:14; 13:48, 52; 14:17; 15:3, 31; 16:34; 21:17).” Source: The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty. [↩]

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