Revolution! What a threatening word.
Revival we can deal with, a bunch of excited religious people having their own party. Not too threatening. But Revolution? Now just wait a minute.
We don’t like the word revolution. Every time revolution is used it is accompanied with words like violence and coup. Revival can be compared to waking up and stretching. But Revolution means a complete overthrow of the old ways. Even Reformation is weak when compared to Revolution.


Martin Luther started the Reformation by accident when he posted his “95
Thesis”. He did not intend to start anything but a discussion of his complaints against certain church practices which he considered unbiblical.
Out of that humble beginning came what is now known as the “Reformation”. A reformation re-forms but it does not overthrow and start anew. A Reformer can negotiate and compromise. No Revolution ever started by accident.
As a Texan, I understand Revolution. Texas became it’s own nation by the blood of revolutionaries. Many men sacrificed their lives on the belief that Texas could become a free nation. Hundreds died because of that belief.
Some died fighting and other were captured and marched to a small clearing and shot down by the hundreds. But because a small group of less than 200 men held off a much larger force of thousands, by armed resistance, they paved the way for a nation to be born. Those 200 men in the Alamo in San Antonio de Bexar in 1836 knew they were going to die. They knew their destiny. They chose their destiny. Just as you are choosing yours every day.


A Revolutionary either succeeds or dies. The reason the American Revolution was successful was primarily due to the fact that, once started, the band of revolutionaries (now known as Patriots and the Founding Fathers) knew that if they failed in their objective to win freedom from England, they would all be hung as traitors. It is amazing how much harder you struggle and fight when you know the only option is to win or die. They knew they were considered “traitors”.
Yet they believed it better to be called “traitors” than to be called “subjects” to an oppressive system.


The early Christians understood win or die. Their struggle was not with political systems. They were not political. Political systems had them killed
but their struggle was spiritual. Today we are in a far different struggle.
We still preach Christ without compromise. We still resist political pressure to bow to false idols (only now the idols are conveniences such as abortion, or clearly sinful lifestyles such as same-sex marriages, etc.), but by far, the most dangerous threat to the body of Christ today is neither attacks from without nor heresy within, but rather the church system that has slowly taken over in the last 1300 years.

The Reformation started small and grew into an entire theological system.
The Reformation was a good start but we let it stop too soon. It did not go far enough. We need Revolution. We must have Revolution. Yet there can be no Revolution without Revolutionaries. There can be no Revolutionaries until we get fed up with being “subjects” to an oppressive religious system that is not Biblical in any sense.


The system we have today is a system of convenience. We stay in it because “it may not be right, but it is the best we have at the moment.”
No revolution ever started with statements like that.
We stay in the current system because if we dare leave it we are branded as “rebels”, or “church-hoppers”. Church-hoppers are usually not yet rebels. Rebels have already passed through the church-hopping stage. Church-hoppers are still looking within the system hoping to find a church that meets the longing in their heart. That longing is to find a Biblical gathering of believers that meet together to fulfill the God-imparted desire for “community”.


http://www.jglm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:apostolic-revolution&catid=51:iac-articles&Itemid=102

My mind exactly

[quote
author=staggerman]Revolution! What a threatening word.
Revival we can deal with, a bunch of excited religious people having
their own party. Not too threatening. But Revolution? Now just wait a
minute.
We don’t like the word revolution. Every time revolution is used it is
accompanied with words like violence and coup. Revival can be compared
to waking up and stretching. But Revolution means a complete overthrow
of the old ways. Even Reformation is weak when compared to Revolution.


Martin Luther started the Reformation by accident when he posted his “95
Thesis”. He did not intend to start anything but a discussion of his
complaints against certain church practices which he considered
unbiblical.
Out of that humble beginning came what is now known as the
“Reformation”. A reformation re-forms but it does not overthrow and
start anew. A Reformer can negotiate and compromise. No Revolution ever
started by accident.
As a Texan, I understand Revolution. Texas became it’s own nation by the
blood of revolutionaries. Many men sacrificed their lives on the belief
that Texas could become a free nation. Hundreds died because of that
belief.
Some died fighting and other were captured and marched to a small
clearing and shot down by the hundreds. But because a small group of
less than 200 men held off a much larger force of thousands, by armed
resistance, they paved the way for a nation to be born. Those 200 men in
the Alamo in San Antonio de Bexar in 1836 knew they were going to die.
They knew their destiny. They chose their destiny. Just as you are
choosing yours every day.


A Revolutionary either succeeds or dies. The reason the American
Revolution was successful was primarily due to the fact that, once
started, the band of revolutionaries (now known as Patriots and the
Founding Fathers) knew that if they failed in their objective to win
freedom from England, they would all be hung as traitors. It is amazing
how much harder you struggle and fight when you know the only option is
to win or die. They knew they were considered “traitors”.
Yet they believed it better to be called “traitors” than to be called
“subjects” to an oppressive system.


The early Christians understood win or die. Their struggle was not with
political systems. They were not political. Political systems had them
killed
but their struggle was spiritual. Today we are in a far different
struggle.
We still preach Christ without compromise. We still resist political
pressure to bow to false idols (only now the idols are conveniences such
as abortion, or clearly sinful lifestyles such as same-sex marriages,
etc.), but by far, the most dangerous threat to the body of Christ today
is neither attacks from without nor heresy within, but rather the
church system that has slowly taken over in the last 1300 years.

The Reformation started small and grew into an entire theological
system.
The Reformation was a good start but we let it stop too soon. It did not
go far enough. We need Revolution. We must have Revolution. Yet there
can be no Revolution without Revolutionaries. There can be no
Revolutionaries until we get fed up with being “subjects” to an
oppressive religious system that is not Biblical in any sense.


The system we have today is a system of convenience. We stay in it
because “it may not be right, but it is the best we have at the moment.”
No revolution ever started with statements like that.
We stay in the current system because if we dare leave it we are branded
as “rebels”, or “church-hoppers”. Church-hoppers are usually not yet
rebels. Rebels have already passed through the church-hopping stage.
Church-hoppers are still looking within the system hoping to find a
church that meets the longing in their heart. That longing is to find a
Biblical gathering of believers that meet together to fulfill the
God-imparted desire for “community”.


http://www.jglm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=175:apostolic-revolution&catid=51:iac-articles&Itemid=102[/quote]

luther wake up nd see what uve done, confusion, diff churches diff doctrines