Black Friday Indeed!
Posted on Saturday, November 28th, 2009
A lot has happened since thousands of us 60s radicals trusted in a Carpenter from Nazareth and became a movement the world could not ignore–the Jesus Movement.
But what hasn’t happened is another revival. In my new book,Reborn to Be Wild, I challenge every Jesus Movement convert and all Christians who want to see another movement by Jesus to return to our Jesus Movement roots.
If you’re from my generation of Jesus Movement radicals or if you think your heart is radical enough to ask for revival, today is a very real indicator of just how much you mean it.
Forty years ago I remember connecting the dots between Thanksgiving and my newfound relationship with the Lord Jesus. For the first time in my life I knew what I was thankful for–mercy, grace, and blessings–and to Whom I was offering thanks–the God of the Bible who sent His Son to die for my sins. I was a counterculture follower of Christ. Thanksgiving wasn’t about food and football anymore, it was about humility and worship.
It’s time for a Jesus Movement checkup. What and Who were the focus of your day yesterday? And today, are you being swept along by our materialistic culture’s only followup to a day of physical engorgement–a day to engorge our materialistic appetites?
Just how black is your black Friday? Your answer to that will tell you a lot of whether your heart is truly ripe for revival.
“Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:21-22).
