- How to start a Biblical Movement -

Lessons Learned from Abraham's story:

1. Pick an elderly couple
   
2. Make sure this couple does not have children
   
3. Take this couple out of a cultural center and into the fringes
   
4. Make sure this person lies in significant situation
5. If this person has a son, ask him to kill it

Lessons learned from Moses story:

1. Look for somebody who is hiding
   
2. Look for somebody doing the work of young boys
   
3. Look for somebody who stutters
   

Lessons from David:

1. Pick the youngest or perhaps the least significant
   
2. Make him a servant to the King
   
3. Perhaps make in an outlaw living in the wilderness
   

Lessons from Jesus' ministry:

1. Make sure this movement starts away from the cultural center
   
2. Alienate all the power players
   
3. Pick followers who are uneducated, unimpressive, confused by everything you say
   
4. Be considered a threat to the state
   
5. Allow those rejected by society to be your biggest supporters

It so weird to see how churches often look to start movements; they look for those with the biggest resources; places where they can finance their ministry; look for the best, smartest, coolest, most promising talent to take their ministry to "the next level." This way of starting a movement does not seem to be the way that God throughout the Bible starts his movement.

What do you think?