“…and when they had…beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go…And daily…they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” These Christians seemed to have been both passive and aggressive. As to the first, concerning persecution, they resisted not (Matt.5:39). As to the second, that is, preaching, they retreated not (Mk.16:15).
These early believers were not in hot water for attempting to clean up the moral, social, and political problems of their day (and they were legion), but for preaching Christ, the Lord. The pagan Samaritan’s misery turned to joy because Philip preached unto them Jesus. If a nation or culture is to be “turned…upside down” (Acts 17:6) again, this method, and this method alone, must be emulated.
Change comes from within, not from without. The former is called Regeneration; the latter, Reformation. The last will leave a man ultimately seven times worse off than he originally was (Matt.12:45). Christians today need to ask themselves this question: What shall it profit a man if he change the world, and yet they lose their souls?
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AMEN!