Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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4. Michael is different: “Michael’s life is more about living for Michael than it is about living for God” ( Revolution , p. 8).

D. Traits of the New Revolutionary Age and the Revolutionary Christian

1. Revolutionaries are devout followers of Jesus Christ who are serious about their faith, who constantly worship and interact with God, centered on their faith in Jesus Christ. 2. “The key to understanding Revolutionaries is not what church they attend or even if they attend. Instead, it’s their complete dedication to being thoroughly Christian by viewing every moment of life through a spiritual lens and making every decision in light of biblical principles ,” p. 8 [all with the exception of commitment to a local assembly]. 3. Revolutionary Christianity grows out of the current Revolutionary Age as descriptive of our current cultural context, p. 9. 4. “The revolution transforming American spirituality today is that millions of devout followers of Jesus Christ are repudiating worn-out, ‘tepid’ systems and practices of the Christian faith and introducing a wholesale shift in how faith is understood, integrated, and influencing the world ,” p. 11. 5. This faith response has emerged from a societal context defined by “seemingly infinite opportunities and options supported by a worldview,” p. 12. 6. Revolutionaries are dramatically moral people confidently returning to first-century lifestyles of kingdom-oriented values, p. 12.

7. Revolutionaries seek to repudiate certain conventional practices.

a. Religious games, whether worship services done without the presence of God or unfruitful ministry programs, p. 13.

b. Self-centered ministries, ministry leaders, phony credentials, things that produce “sizzle but no substance,” p. 14.