The only solution is revolution

Take a step back, look at the world around us and be amazed.

I am firmly entrenched in middle age, but am stunned at the progress just in my time. For my mother, 80-years young, I can’t even imagine what goes through her mind as the dizzying Information Age swirls around her.

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My life is with high-tech devices and sattelite images and instant communications. Data fills my desktops, the  airwaves, the cable systems and my phone. Routers and processors and motherboards all silently work to bring the information to the people.

Despite the physical evidence, the basis of our times is not the computer. The age in which we live is one of words. It always has been.

Few can argue the influence of the Internet and the proliferation of the silicon chip, but they are nothing without the syntax and sentences of the information that they proliferate. Without ideas, the bits and bytes of computers are empty carriers of energy.

Words and ideas still run our world. And this should give us hope. The “Word made flesh” is relevant even in this age. The words of Christ are too life changing to trumped by any smart phone or social network.

We need men and women take up “holy orders” and go beyond the norm of Christendom? We need a revolution of words. What a different world we would live in if Christians would take heed to the commands like:
Be at peace with all men
Die daily to self
Submit to authority
Turn the other cheek
Love your neighbor

Jesus spoke of another kingdom. He spoke of a life on this planet that was unlike any other experienced. But His words are nothing without those willing to live out the life.

A Red Letter Revolution.


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