God’s Revolutions Begin at the Bottom

For many reasons, God’s Revolutions begin at the bottom and not at the top.   Top-down efforts may bring enforced reformation, but not internal transformation.   Jesus, therefore,  gathered leaders from the bottom rungs of Jewish society rather than from among the established rulers of the nation.   The outcasts of society loved him while the rulers of society saw to his killing.  The Wesleyan Revival, worked like leaven among the poor illiterate and drunken masses and transformed English society in ways its kings and prelates could never do.  The bottom of society is the most open to change.  It has greatest need of it and is the most open to the voice of God’s spiritual revolution.

God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise;  God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.  God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him..   1 Corinthians 1:27-2    In Paul’s day, Bible scholars say, most church members were bond-slaves.  The gospel was born among the blue-blood descendants of Abraham.   While these increasingly turned away from the gospel, the spiritually-ignorant pagans replaced them in huge numbers.   In Spain, most Evangelicals are Gypsies, the most despised and abused people in society.   Who have the weakest voices and least places of power in American society today?  The national transformation will begin among them.   Our greatest privilege Is to join them and call them to the greatness God has prepared for them.