Sunday was epic for Revolution Church! We launched a second service and began a new message series called Let’s Get Dangerous…all about the difference between a safe church and a dangerous church. You can click here to listen to the message.
Check out Acts 2:38-41:
38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”
40With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.
Can you imagine what that must have been like? One sermon and the church explodes! It grows by 3,000 people! WOW!
During this time, the old church hated this new movement. The government felt so threatened by the early church that if you were found to be a Christian they would KILL YOU. And in the middle of all of this did the church shrink?
NO! It grew! Why? Because it was a dangerous, powerful church. Fast forward 2,000 years to the present day and the church has become safe. We are civilized. We’ve become complacent. We go to church, go home…and nothing happens.
God is not calling churches today to be a safe. He is calling us to be a dangerous churches & dangerous Christians.
At Revolution Church we have a simple, dangerous mission. We want to make Jesus famous, in one life at a time.
That is a dangerous mission. If we are living it out we’ll be persecuted. We’ll be made fun of. We’ll be different in many ways than the rest of the world. We’ll invest our money in different places. We’ll talk differently and not say things that the world does. We’ll raise our kids differently. We’ll look very different than the world and we’ll be following the most dangerous revolutionary out there EVER in the course of history, JESUS CHRIST.
We make Jesus famous by living out our purpose. Our purpose is to LOVE GOD. LOVE PEOPLE. START A REVOLUTION.
Its a dangerous purpose! We believe the Gospel is for EVERYONE. NO matter who you are or how bad you think you’ve been, God wants to be in a relationship with you.
I like to say that we will do ANYTHING short of sin to reach people. We want to help them become fully devoted followers of Christ so that they too can be sent out to love God, love people, and start a spiritual revolution. The success of Revolution church does not depend upon how many people are in the chairs in one service. Success is measured by how many people we send out!
The question is this: Is Revolution going to be a safe church or a dangerous church? And, are you going to be a safe Christian or a DANGEROUS one?
Let’s get dangerous!
