People don’t change the world

Bob Roberts writes:

People don’t change the world, the world changes people. I know that sounds like heresy from an evangelical, but it’s true. There are those few “world changers” that seize moments, but it isn’t because they thought it up, it’s because the environment was created that allowed them to see it first and then do something about it.

Paul didn’t come up with an idea to change the world with the Gospel. It came from Jesus. His first encounter with Christians is to stomp them out. He’s traveling and persecuting the church around the Middle East. These Christians have spread out because of the Roman roads, trade routes, and businesses. They don’t run and hide in the desert or band together as tribes, now, because of the road system the Romans have built they can disperse, all of them like Abraham. In context, what Abraham did when he left Ur and came to Canaan was radical because there were no roads as the Romans would develop. It was a radical for him to take that journey as it was for Columbus to cross the ocean.

The gospel could spread because of the road systems, the Roman army and business people. It was a very organic thing.

I’m optimistic about this emerging generation of 20 Somethings and how they are connected, view the world, and are actually doing stuff, not just talking. Everyone has been seeing the world change before their eyes. It’s changing how they act within their tribe, but not so much outside their tribe and/or country. Why? Because those behaviors are not in their DNA. Why is this younger generation changing? Because their DNA is a global DNA. It’s different from previous generations. They’re not changing as much as they are responding to an open world. This open world has yet to be seized by Americans that see everything everywhere.

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Read more from Bob on why people have (and need to) change.  Interesting stuff.

What do YOU think?