This Revolution’s for You!
hope you have gleaned a few new insights into our culture and the Church from this book. Studying the Revolution has been a life-changing experience for me in many respects. It has stimulated my curiosity and restored my hope for the Christian body in America, redefined my beliefs about church and the kingdom, and radically reshaped my spiritual habits. This book may not motivate you to become a Revolutionary, but I pray that it at least gives you a clearer understanding of what the Revolution is all about and how you can partner with the nation’s Revolutionaries to advance God’s kingdom on earth. If this information strikes a deeper chord within you, then I pray that the book has provided you with the sense of value that Revolutionaries possess within the work of God’s kingdom. I hope that you claim the freedom to be whoever God made you to be in fulfilling your role in His service.

This is a great time to be alive—especially for those who love Jesus Christ. The opportunities to minister are unparalleled: the millions of searching hearts and agonized souls, combined with the abundance of resources Christians have at their disposal, makes this a very special era for the Church. Throw in the rapid and profound cultural changes occurring as well as the struggles local churches are undergoing, and we have an environment in which the birth of a spiritual revolution is inevitable. The confluence of those elements demanded a dramatic response, and the emerging Revolution represents such a historic thrust.

There can be no turning back at this point, no return to the old ways and the comfortable forms. Although we cannot accurately predict what the Church will look like twenty years hence, we can be confident that it will be more different than similar to the Church at the start of the twenty-first century. The Revolution is an extensive grassroots response to the undeniable and insatiable human longing for a genuine relationship with God our Father. The transformations it introduces are sometimes difficult to accept and oftentimes inefficient in their development, but the outgrowth is a stronger and more irresistible Church.

The Church You’ve Always Wanted
As you seek to comprehend the emerging Revolution and describe it to others, keep in mind its central facets. It is comprised of a demographically diverse group of people who are determined to let nothing stand in the way of authentic and genuine experience with God. They are involved in a variety of activities and connections designed to satisfy a spiritual focus. They are God-lovers and joyfully obedient servants. They are willing to do whatever it takes to draw closer to God, to bond with , and to bring Him glory and pleasure. If that can be accomplished through existing structures and process, they accept that; if not, they will blaze new trails to facilitate such a Spirit-driven life.

En route to this intimacy with God, they are integrating the seven spiritual passions of a true Revolutionary Christian into their life. Their daily expressions of worship refine their sense of the beauty, the creativity, and the majesty of God. Their joy at knowing Him naturally provides the impetus to communicate to others the good news about Jesus’ sacrifice and offer of salvation. Their infatuation with the kingdom fuels their consistent effort to know more about God’s ways. They respond to His love by seeking ways to invest the resources they control or influence for kingdom outcomes. Their friendships hinge on spiritual growth. They pursue opportunities to use their abilities to affect the quality of life in the world. And they recognize that their most important set of relationships is within their family, and that Christ must be the centerpiece of their experience together. These passions enable Revolutionaries to remain centered on God in a world of distractions and seductions. Their attention to these passions allows them to be the Church.

At what stage, or under what conditions, is the Revolution successful? Revolutionaries recognize that spiritual success is more about surrender than results. They know that God examines the fruit of someone’s life, but the real fruit of the kingdom is flat-out, no-excuses obedience to God. Such submission produces a perpetual string of behaviors and outcomes that may be imperceptible to a frenetic and hard-hearted world, but represent major victories within the kingdom. Why? Because life is war, and every time a soldier willingly engages in sacrificial battle for the King, His honor is advanced. Revolutionaries’ complete and total surrender to Him and His cause is the essence of eternal victory.

It is this holistic devotion to being Christ-like that triggers the transformational legacy of the Revolution. First, Revolutionaries are changed so profoundly that they see life through a completely different lens. Then, armed with that new perspective and the courage to respond, these individuals set about transforming the world by being replicas of Jesus in every space they inhabit.

The purity and authenticity of their cultivated spirit influences everything in their path. Their beliefs, identity, behavior, and relationships blend to project a persona that pricks the spirit in everyone around them. Analysts might say that the job of a Revolutionary is to reform the culture, but that confuses purpose and product. These extreme God-lovers reform the culture simply by being true representations of who God made them to be. They do not create and enforce a carefully plotted and meticulously deployed agenda of reform. They simply live a holy and obedient life that a society suffering from the stranglehold of sin cannot ignore. The transformation that follows in their wake is not so much their doing as it is an inevitable result of God’s creatures waking up to the difference between living in the freedom of Christ or in the shackles of Satan.

In past spiritual awakenings, dynamic preachers went into society to bring people into a local church for further development. This era of spiritual growth is different. It features millions of individuals quietly using the weapons of faith that God has given them to be scions of transformation within the framework of their typical space and connections. The starting point is internal, not external: their message is their own transformation by Christ, made real in their words and deeds. Rather than draw people out of the world and into a relationship with an institution, Revolutionaries demonstrate what it means to be the presence of God wherever you are. This is a broad-based grassroots revival that has no single leader and no headquarters. The declaration of purpose is more than two thousand years old: the Bible.

In the great awakenings of America’s history, the pattern was always the same: draw people into the local church for teaching and other experiences. In this new movement of God, the approach is the opposite: it entails drawing people away from reliance upon a local church into a deeper connection with and reliance upon God. In other words, past revivals were outside-inside phenomena, in which the dynamic and evangelistically gifted Spurgeons, Finneys, Wesleys and Whitefields of the Church brought non-Christian people inside the local church to be ministered to. This edition is predominantly an outside-outside experience, where believers see the world as their church grounds and every human being they encounter as a soul to love into the permanent presence and experience of God. Many of these Revolutionaries are active members of a local church, but their primary ministry effect is not within the congregational framework but in the raw world.

The Affirmations of a Revolutionary
What we believe drives what we do. What we believe matters to God—which is why so much of the Bible painstakingly explains God and His kingdom (i.e., theology). The Revolution fosters a stunningly diverse array of activities that work together to produce spiritual and behavioral transformation. But Revolutionaries connect at the level of theology. What are the affirmations common to Revolutionaries?

I am a Revolutionary in the service of God Almighty. My life is not my own; I exist as a free person but have voluntarily become a slave to God. My role on earth is to live as a Revolutionary, committed to love, holiness, and advancing God’s kingdom. My life is not about me and my natural desires; it is all about knowing, loving, and serving God with all my heart, mind, strength, and soul. Therefore, I acknowledge the following:

I am a sinner, broken by my disobedience but restored by Jesus Christ in order to participate in good works that please God. I am not perfect; but Jesus Christ makes me righteous in God’s eyes, and the Holy Spirit leads me toward greater holiness.

God created me for His purposes. My desire as a Revolutionary is to fulfill those ends, and those ends alone. When I get out of bed each day, I do so for one purpose: to love, obey, and serve God and His people.

Every breath I take is a declaration of war against Satan and a commitment to opposing him.

God does not need me to fight His fight, but He invites me to allow Him to fight through me. It is my privilege to serve Him in that manner. I anticipate and will gladly endure various hardships as I serve God; for this is the price of participation in winning the spiritual war.

I do not need to save the world; Jesus Christ has already done that. I cannot transform the world, but I can allow God to use me to transform some part of it.

My commitment to the Revolution of faith is sealed by my complete surrender to God’s ways and His will. I will gratefully do what He asks of me simply because He loves me enough to ask. I gain my security, success, and significance through my surrender to Him.

I am not called to attend or join a church. I am called to be the Church.

Worship is not an event I attend or a process I observe; it is the lifestyle I lead.

I do not give away 10 percent of my resources. I surrender 100 percent.
God has given me natural abilities and supernatural abilities, all intended to advance His kingdom. I will deploy those abilities for that purpose.

The proof of my status as a Revolutionary is the love I show to God and people.

There is strength in relationships; I am bound at a heart and soul level to other Revolutionaries, and I will bless believers whenever I have the chance.

To achieve victory in the spiritual war in which we are immersed, there is nothing I must accomplish; I must simply follow Christ with everything I have.

There is no greater calling than to know and serve God.

The world is desperately seeking meaning and purpose. I will respond to that need with the Good News and meaningful service.

Absolute moral and spiritual truth exists, is knowable, and is intended for my life; it is accessible through the Bible.

I want nothing more than to hear God say to me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.

Thank you, Lord God, for loving me, for saving me, for refining me, for blessing me, and for including me in the work of your kingdom. My life is yours to use as you please. I love you.

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