Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How the Prophets Lost Their Chariots of Fire

People and neighborhoods change when the kingdom comes. Not just in a building where someone strides a stage and says great stuff. Why is it that the prophetic movement of the last 20 years is fading, and the congregations which participated (and their surrounding neighborhoods) don't seem better off?

Someday books will be written which dissect the movement. But some things seem obvious. The movement didn't lead the charge for the widows, orphans, the poor. Its prophets didn't form humble communities of kindness. They thought that words of knowledge from a stage were the real game & became rock stars flying from city to city dispensing "words," some of which were actually helpful.

But they can get their chariots back. They are under the same rule as the rest of us: go low, be in authentic biblical community, have people who can tell you "no" and you have to listen.

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