Do you want a revolution

Do you want a revolution?

Deixe me declarar já que não nem pouco um fã de Kurt Franklin, mas ele tem um cântico que fica ecoando na minha cabeça já anos: “Do you want a revolution? Whoop! Whoop!” “Você quer uma revolução? Whoop! Whoop!” E se quiser saber, SIM!!! Eu quero uma revolução. Eu quero ver os crentes de verdade nessa nação se levantar com a sua arma puxada, SOLA ESCRIPTURA, e revoltar conta esse sistema safado do EUvangelho que vemos hoje. É podre e todo mundo sabe. Prosperidade, Donos de igrejas, Dízmos, cachês, manipulação (ameaças de rebelião), ta feia e ta na hora que a voz profética se levanta. É agora ou nunca!

Cada vez que Israel clamou por socorro, Deus mandou um profeta.

O trabalho do profeta é de confrontar, não confortar.

A necessidade de uma nova reforma.

Why Are Christians Living Just Like the Rest of the World? In our righteous frustration lies a temptation that entices us when we start anxiously comparing ourselves with "the rest of the world." This is the temptation of the devout that Jesus described, of the evangelical Pharisee who thanked God that he was no longer like sinners! We might do better to shift the comparison; the scandal is not that we are just like other people but that we are not more like Jesus.

churches that have become nothing more than religious social clubs

ministério torres de Babel – “Olhe para mim! “Olhe para nós!”

This judgment and grace is the word of the Cross, the word that continues to scandalize not only the world, but us too.

The word of the Cross calls us to measure ourselves not against "the rest of the world" but against the righteousness of God. It calls us not to strive and do, but to acknowledge how much our striving and doing is an attempt to justify ourselves, to make a name for ourselves. It calls us to recognize that the problem with evangelicalism is not the piety of the spiritual formation folk, nor the activism of the social justice crowd, nor the ecclesiology of this group or that. No, the word of the Cross says the problem with evangelicalism, to allude to G. K. Chesterton, is me. It calls us not to do more but to cease worshiping idols.

At the same time, the word of the Cross is called folly because it assumes that the vertically-impaired, the horizontally-addicted, the very people whose habits deny the presence and power of grace—especially those who are made aware of and thus grieve their idolatry—are given the grace that makes all things new. Grace makes the horizontal possible in a whole new way.

Martin Luther summed it up well when he said, "One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ."

This is why the Bible has been central to evangelical life and faith throughout our history, why expository preaching and inductive Bible studies characterize us. Yes, we have often succumbed to bibliolatry. Yes, we often misuse the Bible. Yes, we have a nasty habit of making this means of grace into the weight of law—sometimes even the law of grace! But the Word of God written and preached is first a gift that reveals the crucified Christ, as well as the risen Christ.

In short, it is where the vertical meets and transforms us. When evangelicals have offered the Bible not as a proof text but as the Word that proves and judges and forgives us, that's when our movement has been transformed and been a transforming agent in the world.