I have decided this year to try and blog a tad bit more frequently, and take one word a week and break it down. Hopefully this will be inspiring, and we can help each other together become more than we are by ourselves. As Miles Welch, the College pastor at 12 Stone Church said, You plus God is not enough. We can do much more as a community, and we become stronger when we are a community that goes after God’s purpose and desire.
There is a rap artist called Lecrae, and he just produced a CD called Rebel. His first song, Rebel Intro has sparked me to think of a few things, like what it means to be a rebel. I also ponder about the difference between a rebel, and a revolutionary.
Rebel
To refuse allegiance to and oppose by force an established government or ruling authority
Revolutionary
constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change
Rebels seem to be more of in favor of just standing in opposition to the normal standards. They chose to stand up, and not back down. This is not a bad thing, but if we just stand in opposition to something, we can not influence a change. This has been my way of thinking for a long time until I listened to Lecrae’s song Rebel Intro. At one part in the song it says:
I know that in our day rebel means sinner, but everyone is sinning so it is no longer rebellious to sin. Jesus was a rebel who was counter cultural
You are just a conformist, if you are drunk and naked, driving around on a lot of motorcycles,smoking cigarettes and breaking commandments, and getting pregnant out of wed-lock. Everyone has do that it is so tired. If you really want to be a rebel read your bible, because no one is doing that…. that’s rebellion that’s the only rebellion left.
