Winning the World

24 Wi nn i ng the Wor l d: Fac i l i tat i ng Urban Chur ch P l ant i ng Movement s

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.

c. Flat, better than average church programs and affiliation without “the spark provided by a commitment to a true revolution in thinking, behavior, and experience,” p. 14.

8. They pursue an intimate relationship with God which Jesus Christ promised we could have through him, p. 15.