Radical Christians Needed
Psalm 33:10-12 says, “God brings nothing to the plans of nations, he foils the plans of the peoples. But the counsel of God stands forever, his heart’s plans are for all generations. How blessed is the nation whose God is God, the people he chose as his heritage!” Recent headlines are showing how presidential candidates are bending rules and procedures to gain delegates legally, but perhaps not ethically. This is an inherent flaw in humanity. It demonstrates that character is an issue in this election, and it is an issue that this far into the process will not be addressed appropriately. It is an indicatory, however, of a much larger issue of a disengaged population segment that has the power to change things for the better.
What we need in this country is a revivalution. A revivalution would be a revival of the ancient paths of our Lord; a revival of understanding of and relationship with the one true God, and his son Jesus Christ. This revival is not the showy mega church version of revival. It is a revival of the heart–a return to the gospel and the scriptures in their traditional form and meaning. The “lution” part of revivalution is we become a people so passionate in our relationship with God, we would be described like the apostles and disciples in Acts 17:6 “These who have turned the world upside down are come here also.” We would be as Jesus described in the Sermon on the Mount, “salt of the earth.”
This is not to be confused with Dominion Theology or Kingdom Now. These theologies are the problem, not the solution. Scripturally, man has absolutely no power over when Jesus Christ returns to earth. It is the sole responsibility of God the Father and Jesus the Christ. Teachings to the contrary are in great error and lack an understanding of what the Bible says about the end times and the Millennial Reign. Placing in leadership misguided “Christians” who believe in bad theology expecting different results than what we have is tantamount to getting the same, if not worse, than what we have in place. They lack discernment and wisdom because they are not grounded in the Word of God.
A revivalution means getting right with and having a close personal relationship with God and Jesus Christ first and foremost. And through that right relationship conducting your life in a manner consistent with the scriptures. This means you are a living testimony to the one true God and you are making disciples. These disciples indigenously begin to change the nation from its current state to one whose God is truly the one true God. This is harder work than sitting in a church pew listening to some pastor teaching self-indulgent, extra biblical, out of context concepts of selfish living disguised as Christianity. Revivalution means we become an Acts 5:29 people where we “obey God rather than men.”
