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    How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution
    How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution
    How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution
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    How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution

    By Jonathan Storment

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    A story about shipwrecks, snakebites, beatings, meetings, and other church events. When was the last time you saw crowd control at a church?If you ask most people--at least Western people--what they think about Christianity, they will probably give you a pretty domesticated vision of church. Almost half of Americans think that religion is at best irrelevant and obsolete, and possibly a way of making the world a worse place.But I have a hunch most of us wouldn't like the world if Jesus hadn't been born into it. From our modern ideas of human rights, to prisons and orphanages and universities...For thousands of years the people who have followed Jesus have been a compelling force for good in the world. The way of Jesus has always been wilder than we think and more dangerous than we'd like. This is a book about what it means to belong to the community of God--a book about how to Support Your Local Jesus Revolution.This is why Acts of the Apostles is so important. The four Gospels are followed by a book about what the people of God did. Because the gospel leads to action. It leads to a different kind of people embodying a different way of life. And as Western Christianity becomes more assimilated into Western culture, it is good for us to notice not just what the earliest Christians said and thought, but what they did. Acts is a manifesto of a people who went all over the known world proclaiming that Jesus is Lord and that God is doing a new thing that is available for anyone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeafwood Publishers
    Release dateApr 28, 2014
    ISBN9780891127154
    How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution

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    • 4/5
      Very enjoyable and easy to understand. Written with a modern and often humorous tone, at no time does the reader feel smothered or bogged down. Interesting and engaging, this book is good for all levels of biblical knowledge.
    • 5/5
      I too have to say that I loved this book. I loved the way he took you through Acts in layman's words. Today's words. I really got to thinking about things so much differently. In a new way. This book was so easy to read and I couldn't put it down. I too have gotten so many quotes from this book but I don't really have a favorite. You have to read this book even if you think you have read the greatest authors, read Jonathan Storment's words. Loved it......
    • 3/5
      This book fell flat for me. It was neither the deep dive into the book of Acts that it seemed to claim nor the seed of a revival of evangelism that I would have guessed from the front cover. There was one chapter toward the end that contained a few notable quotes, but otherwise it was bland. The writing style was conversational, and did not provoke deeper thought and study. In Biblical terms, I'd compare this book to spiritual milk rather than spiritual meat. They each have their place - but we should crave meat not milk.Overall, it was a quick and easy read; I did not dislike it, but I would not pick it up again to read. Would I recommend it? Maybe if someone is looking for a quick read on an airplane.I received this book as an early reviewer for LibraryThing in exchange for my honest review.
    • 4/5
      I was excited to receive a copy of this book as I already read and enjoy the author’s blog. The premise of the book is that being a part of the first century church was not a mild thing. It was a time of radical change, and the first century Christians were starting something huge. I marked this passage: “You know what I find most interesting about this whole story? It’s these bottom-line requirements: no bloody meat and no meat offered to idols. You’d think if you were going to cut hundreds of laws, these wouldn’t be the ones you would retain. But they kept them because this is about table fellowship! That’s why this is such a big deal. They want to be able to break bread with all their brothers and sisters! Even the ones they disagree with!”I had never considered this before, but it really makes sense. The whole message of Acts is about unity among Christians of both Jewish and Gentile heritage. Fellowship – especially breaking of bread – is so important to unity! I did wish the book would have gone into a little more detail on practical ways to apply the first century church mindset to today. After all, it subtitle is “Support Your Local Jesus Revolution”. But he doesn’t talk much about that. Instead, I felt like there was an over-use of pop-culture references to try to engage the reader and make the book applicable to modern Christians. However, I think the point he’s trying to make could have stood alone without Mary Poppins and Starbucks references. The focus on Acts was great — just not necessarily what I was expecting from the title. Would I recommend this to my BFF? Absolutely. I think she’d like it. Would I recommend it to my teen daughter? It would be fine for her to read, but not sure she would enjoy it quite yet. Overall, I liked the book. I felt it was solid, but not “wowing”. 4 of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      I just finished reading How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution by Jonathan Storment. First let me say I loved the title and cover, may end up with people reading about Jesus looking for something else. (Great idea)The author, who is a pastor, uses the book of Acts to try and explain what it means to be a child of God. To explain how Christians and the Church should live today.The Church is not a building where you go for an hour on Sunday, put a few dollars in the plate and you are good for another week. It is so very much more than that, as is being a Christian as well.I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to study more about the book of Acts. I received an advanced copy of this in exchange for my review rather it be good or bad.
    • 1/5
      There is much I could say about this book but I will start by saying that the Book of Acts - which this book attempts to discuss - did not turn the world upside down, the Gospel did; and it did so not by changing the world but by changing hearts. Paul did not take pride in the riots he was involved in (caused not by him but by his opponents) - he only made mention of the times he was imprisoned to highlight his weakness. He did not urge the saints to stir up society - to cause a riot. On the contrary, his advice was that they should "aspire to live quietly, to mind your own business and to work with your hands . . . that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one" (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12), "who are we to judge those outside the church? . . . God judges those outside. Purge the evil from yourselves" (1 Corinthians 5:12-13), and that, "as far as it depends upon you, live at peace with all people" (Romans 12:18). We are also told that "human passion does not bring about the righteousness God desires" (James 1:20), which may be why so many "revolutions" have failed of their purpose and had so many negative consequences despite "good intentions". Change comes through changed lives, not through self-righteous people demanding of unbelievers how they should live. As to the writing, many of the allusions were not a part of my experience (how often WERE the Dallas Cowboys in jail in the 80s?), and so they did not communicate to me. I found his tone condescending and self-righteous, and on the whole, for me the book was a waste.

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