Over the past few months of filming and interviewing for the documentary, I have heard time and time again people make the comment that this new movement in Christianity has reached a ‘critical mass’. Essentially meaning that there are enough people who have bought into to this revolutionary theology, that it is time to stop talking and start enacting. Lest the talking and imagining be wasted as the movement filters away into nothing.
What exactly the next move is on this journey towards a better world though seems to be uncertain for many. Most, it seems are moving on the current trajectory that smaller is not only beautiful, but the only efficient and secure way for change to come. However, not all are on this path, and Zach Exley has written some rather interesting and revolutionary blog posts over the past little while. In one of them remarking that:
“I grew up an atheist, but recently I have fallen in love with a movement that seems to be the most dynamic element of Christianity in American today. It’s a movement based on radical idealism, a faith that ‘all of creation will be redeemed.’ These people are working toward a world with no poverty, no violence, no hatred or racism. And they believe they can do it. Even some of the most conservative evangelical churches are beginning shift away from the narrow, exclusive theology of ‘personal salvation’ to a holistic gospel that calls Christians to build the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ right here on Earth. My whole life, I’ve been searching for a movement that has the guts to try to truly save the world. The progressive movement in which I grew up has been in a downward spiral of lowered expectations. Meanwhile, Christians are charging forward with revolutionary zeal—and are even calling themselves ‘revolutionaries’!
“There is one big problem, though: These revolutionary Christians have adopted a theory of social change that is just as narrow and unimaginative as the old theology they just left behind.”
Interesting, eh? Read more of Zach’s post here.
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