What do you stand for?
What do you stand for?
(You say you want a revolution PART 2)
I think the world around us beckons The Church to answer this question:
What do you stand for?
But unfortunately, like the band FUN exclaimed in their hit song Some Nights, the answer is coming across as “I don’t know anymore”.
The horrible reality is that Jesus stood for so much! WE have SO MUCH to stand for.
But the cultures around us aren’t hearing is.
All they hear is what we are against.
Not only that, they are hearing us scream louder and more irrationally what we are against at each passing day. So far as the social media, television and radio media are concerned.
I recently outlined the five things I see in people who ARE going to be a part of the current revolutionary change we are experiencing in the church in North America.
One of the main actions I see in true revolutionaries is this:
They rally towards what they are for, rather than what they are against.
These revolutionaries have realized that no revolution has had sustained success when it was centered on tearing apart what is.
It’s unproductive to spend time criticizing what is currently happening in the church if you don’t ALSO take action towards what could be.
Being loud about what we are for and very careful about expressing what we may be against is the key to a sustained movement towards what God is doing.
What do you stand for? What does Jesus stand for?
We stand for love!
For mercy, grace, compassion, and prayer for our enemies.
We stand for those who are oppressed, marginalized.
We stand for justice and seeing wrong things made right.
We stand for the poor the orphan, the widow and the foreigner.
We stand for those who cannot stand and for those who need help to do so.
We stand for a future hope where God makes all the sad things untrue!
Jesus said that the world would know we were his disciples because of our love.
Because of what we stand FOR.
Not what or who we are against.
You say you want a revolution?
Figure out what you are for… and let that be what is heard.
What do you stand for?
(You say you want a revolution PART 2)
I think the world around us beckons The Church to answer this question:
What do you stand for?
But unfortunately, like the band FUN exclaimed in their hit song Some Nights, the answer is coming across as “I don’t know anymore”.
The horrible reality is that Jesus stood for so much! WE have SO MUCH to stand for.
But the cultures around us aren’t hearing is.
All they hear is what we are against.
Not only that, they are hearing us scream louder and more irrationally what we are against at each passing day. So far as the social media, television and radio media are concerned.
I recently outlined the five things I see in people who ARE going to be a part of the current revolutionary change we are experiencing in the church in North America.
One of the main actions I see in true revolutionaries is this:
They rally towards what they are for, rather than what they are against.
These revolutionaries have realized that no revolution has had sustained success when it was centered on tearing apart what is.
It’s unproductive to spend time criticizing what is currently happening in the church if you don’t ALSO take action towards what could be.
Being loud about what we are for and very careful about expressing what we may be against is the key to a sustained movement towards what God is doing.
What do you stand for? What does Jesus stand for?
We stand for love!
For mercy, grace, compassion, and prayer for our enemies.
We stand for those who are oppressed, marginalized.
We stand for justice and seeing wrong things made right.
We stand for the poor the orphan, the widow and the foreigner.
We stand for those who cannot stand and for those who need help to do so.
We stand for a future hope where God makes all the sad things untrue!
Jesus said that the world would know we were his disciples because of our love.
Because of what we stand FOR.
Not what or who we are against.
You say you want a revolution?
Figure out what you are for… and let that be what is heard.