“Movements become Monuments”
Everyone wants to start a movement. The problem is, most people are not even moving themselves. This is not a slam on anyone, but how do you start a movement when there is not any motion taking place in your own life?
See movements are chic. It is sexy to be a movement, but the reality movements do not start for the sake of the movement, they start because of an uncontrollable passion by its members to move, to get in motion. They start to move in their communities, move in their church, in their culture…it start with people…moving.
The reality is, a movement takes actions. It takes little actions adding up to something that alters the culture in which it was created. As a Christian culture, we have started to celebrate the movement more than the motion.
Last week we hosted an artist who got me thinking about this. He made the comment: “Movements become monuments to those who started them.” It is sad. It is true.
But what if instead of staring a movement or becoming a movement…we just started to move. We moved in the areas we have influence. We changed the culture of the world we live in. We started to move in our offices, we moved in our schools, we moved our churches, we moved in our communities, and we lived out “THE REVOLUTION” rather than focusing on the movement. We lived the love of God, and made our worship a tangible action of GRACE, HOPE, and LOVE.
If you want a movement, go for it…I am ready for a revolution.
This is good stuff! One thing I always find about a movement is that they are messy and cannot be control. Often the people who wanted the movement reject it when it comes, most of the time because of the reasons you gave!
love this post man.. I am sold!
“Move in the areas you have influence” .. so practical yet so overlooked.
We would rather create “movement” for recognition rather than impacting the areas and people God has placed in our lives/path.
I want to live this revolution.. and leave the outcome to our King.
You raise some very interesting points in this post.
Many movements, particularly within the Christian circles, have paralyzed their driving engine because the focus soon changed from the motion to the movement. The focus went from “what God can do through us” to “what we can do by ourselves”.
May I refer you to the following blog, which I read regularly, from a pastor called Neil Cole, who wrote an inspiring book called “The Organic Church”. He has talked much about this movement in his last posts and raises some very valid and interesting points. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I see God’s heart for His bride in much of what he writes. The link is:
http://cole-slaw.blogspot.com/
Let me know what you think about his vision, if you read it.
God bless you.
This was/is awesome. Move in the areas that we influence. This is so simple but profound…But so was Christ…”The Greatest Commandment”
Thanks for sharing…I pray that we all just move…
Came by way of Perkins’ blog. Good thoughts. So sad when many “good movements” ended up as skeletons of their former self.
Welcome Bill, been a visitor of your blog for some time. Thanks for stopping by.