Comments on: Rebellion vs. Rebelution http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/ reb•e•lu•tion (reb’el lu shen) n. a teenage rebellion against the low expectations of an ungodly culture. Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:07:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Abigail Oxford http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-303119 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:52:36 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-303119 i have been a christian most of my life. but i recently gave my all to jesus. i am naturally a rebel against like everything. i am an individual and always have been. i used to rebel against authority, and things like that. but i realized God gave me a rebellious attitude to use for him. and thats exactly what im doing. ive always known i would be a musician who made it big time. but its not the only thing God has planned for a 14 year old girl from louisville. stop human trafficking change the music industry forever be a missionary start a nonprofit for teens with any hurt of any kind. seems like a lot for a 14 year old. well not for God. me and some friends have recently gotten real close. we r changing our youth group. at 12 on a tuesday nite instead of having sex or partying we are upstairs worshipping, preaching to eachother, giving God our all, praying. instead of gossiping before church we worship with no music, everyone looks at us like what the heck its not 7:00 yet. but we came to church to be with God and grow. i easily make friends so i always try to befriend the new kid. im so excited to find out there are more ppl like me. REBELUTIONARIES. abigail i have been a christian most of my life. but i recently gave my all to jesus. i am naturally a rebel against like everything. i am an individual and always have been. i used to rebel against authority, and things like that. but i realized God gave me a rebellious attitude to use for him. and thats exactly what im doing. ive always known i would be a musician who made it big time. but its not the only thing God has planned for a 14 year old girl from louisville.

stop human trafficking

change the music industry forever

be a missionary

start a nonprofit for teens with any hurt of any kind.

seems like a lot for a 14 year old. well not for God.

me and some friends have recently gotten real close. we r changing our youth group. at 12 on a tuesday nite instead of having sex or partying we are upstairs worshipping, preaching to eachother, giving God our all, praying. instead of gossiping before church we worship with no music, everyone looks at us like what the heck its not 7:00 yet. but we came to church to be with God and grow. i easily make friends so i always try to befriend the new kid. im so excited to find out there are more ppl like me. REBELUTIONARIES.

abigail

]]> by: The Rebelution « Word From The Street http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-273093 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:57:45 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-273093 [...] The word ‘rebelution’ is a combination of the words “rebellion” and “revolution.” So it carries a sense of an uprising against social norms. But in this case, it’s not a rebellion against God-established authority, but against the low expectations of our society. It’s a refusal to be defined by our ungodly, rebellious, and apathetic culture. Actually, we like to think of it as rebelling against rebellion. [...] […] The word ‘rebelution’ is a combination of the words “rebellion” and “revolution.” So it carries a sense of an uprising against social norms. But in this case, it’s not a rebellion against God-established authority, but against the low expectations of our society. It’s a refusal to be defined by our ungodly, rebellious, and apathetic culture. Actually, we like to think of it as rebelling against rebellion. […]

]]> by: Beka http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-216837 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:21:14 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-216837 Hey Alex and Brett! So, I think your website is really cool! I totally agree that the expectations for Christian teens now is SO low!! Thats why I really respect this site and the work you guys are doing!! I was wondering though if you were by chance going to be coming back to Portland OR any time in the future?? Portland is the closest you guys are coming to my city and I would love to come to one of your conferences! I don't think i can come to the one on May 3rd though, so i was just curious if you were coming again any time soon. If not thats OK! You probably have a ton of other people who would like you to come to their cities!! Thank you! Beka Hey Alex and Brett!
So, I think your website is really cool! I totally agree that the expectations for Christian teens now is SO low!! Thats why I really respect this site and the work you guys are doing!! I was wondering though if you were by chance going to be coming back to Portland OR any time in the future?? Portland is the closest you guys are coming to my city and I would love to come to one of your conferences! I don’t think i can come to the one on May 3rd though, so i was just curious if you were coming again any time soon. If not thats OK! You probably have a ton of other people who would like you to come to their cities!!
Thank you!
Beka

]]> by: Gordon http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-205941 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:55:10 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-205941 "Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process." Phillips Brooks (1835 – 1893) “Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.”

Phillips Brooks (1835 – 1893)

]]> by: Jeff Robertson http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-191382 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:43:31 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-191382 DD: I hope your right DD: I hope your right

]]> by: DD http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-191126 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:42:21 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-191126 I think that is a very crucial question to ask. I'm sure there are many leaders that we either know of or personally know ourselves that have many regrets from the past wherther spiritually or educationally or etc. Thank you for the challenge! I think that is a very crucial question to ask. I’m sure there are many leaders that we either know of or personally know ourselves that have many regrets from the past wherther spiritually or educationally or etc. Thank you for the challenge!

]]> by: Jeff Robertson http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-187851 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:39:56 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-187851 Kevin Jackson: I back you up totally!!! Kevin Jackson: I back you up totally!!!

]]> by: Kevin Jackson http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-170480 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:21:34 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-170480 IntelligentChristian: It's true that human nature doesn’t change and that rebellion comes quite naturally to us. However, I can't see anything positive or necessary about it. We do undergo a time when we start to think for ourselves more, going from a childlike faith in whatever our parents say to an informed childlike faith in what the Bible says. It is a good thing to ask honest questions and be honest about how we feel, but we should also be open to the answers that our parents and others give us. How a Christian should undergo this stage is by asking people the answers to our questions, not by challenging the answers. For a Christian, the question is how we can grow without rejecting those who already have. As far as happiness without Jesus, it seriously depends on what you mean by happiness. You can temporarily feel self-fulfilled without Jesus, for example by doing good deeds or “something worthwhile.” You can be “happy” listening to music, eating good food, admiring art. But you won’t find grace, mercy, holiness, forgiveness of sins, lasting victory, hope, and enduring joy in the things God created. The things that people say make them happy are only the things God uses to show people his qualities; they are not substitute saviors or joy-givers. I hope you consider what I wrote, whether you agree with it or not. All I’m asking is that you examine it and test it with the Bible. IntelligentChristian: It’s true that human nature doesn’t change and that rebellion comes quite naturally to us. However, I can’t see anything positive or necessary about it. We do undergo a time when we start to think for ourselves more, going from a childlike faith in whatever our parents say to an informed childlike faith in what the Bible says. It is a good thing to ask honest questions and be honest about how we feel, but we should also be open to the answers that our parents and others give us. How a Christian should undergo this stage is by asking people the answers to our questions, not by challenging the answers. For a Christian, the question is how we can grow without rejecting those who already have.
As far as happiness without Jesus, it seriously depends on what you mean by happiness. You can temporarily feel self-fulfilled without Jesus, for example by doing good deeds or “something worthwhile.” You can be “happy” listening to music, eating good food, admiring art. But you won’t find grace, mercy, holiness, forgiveness of sins, lasting victory, hope, and enduring joy in the things God created. The things that people say make them happy are only the things God uses to show people his qualities; they are not substitute saviors or joy-givers.
I hope you consider what I wrote, whether you agree with it or not. All I’m asking is that you examine it and test it with the Bible.

]]> by: IntelligentChristian http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-169024 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:13:03 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-169024 Maybe its just me, but I hardly agree with anything on your blog. Everybody knows about the true and necessary functions of the teenage rebellion mechanism, and the people in the last 100 years were just honest while admiting to it as a fact while earlier generations were hindered by stupid and unnecessary taboos. Our time is far more honest as considered the TRUE impulses, sufferings, problems etc. of Man and I am looking forward to further development in the affected domains (e.g psychhology and the self-analysis of every particular person). In order that everybody face his real problems and pains, solve them and become as happy as possible (and no, Jesus is not the only premise of happiness on Earth, experience shows it). But instead, individs, and Christian individs nonethelss than unbelievers, are gliding more and more into neurosis instead, and I have suffered neurosis while reading "I kIssed Dating Goodbye" because it fitted exactly in the thinking pattern "Sin or No Sin?" burned in my brain by my experience with Christianity so far and I had to suspect everything a sin that has been (and is!) dear to me at th edoamin of love experiences. And if everybody at all, YOU are the creators of artificial truth here. Think whatever you are, but I AM a convinced Christian believer - if I was none, I would never bother about books and blogs and forums of that kind. But I still have something to say that fits in well with your article: If there is something I ever have regretted, this is ever having known about you! Maybe its just me, but I hardly agree with anything on your blog. Everybody knows about the true and necessary functions of the teenage rebellion mechanism, and the people in the last 100 years were just honest while admiting to it as a fact while earlier generations were hindered by stupid and unnecessary taboos. Our time is far more honest as considered the TRUE impulses, sufferings, problems etc. of Man and I am looking forward to further development in the affected domains (e.g psychhology and the self-analysis of every particular person). In order that everybody face his real problems and pains, solve them and become as happy as possible (and no, Jesus is not the only premise of happiness on Earth, experience shows it). But instead, individs, and Christian individs nonethelss than unbelievers, are gliding more and more into neurosis instead, and I have suffered neurosis while reading “I kIssed Dating Goodbye” because it fitted exactly in the thinking pattern “Sin or No Sin?” burned in my brain by my experience with Christianity so far and I had to suspect everything a sin that has been (and is!) dear to me at th edoamin of love experiences. And if everybody at all, YOU are the creators of artificial truth here. Think whatever you are, but I AM a convinced Christian believer - if I was none, I would never bother about books and blogs and forums of that kind. But I still have something to say that fits in well with your article: If there is something I ever have regretted, this is ever having known about you!

]]> by: Trevor http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-141039 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:55:22 +0000 http://www.therebelution.com/blog/2006/10/rebellion-vs-rebelution/#comment-141039 thanks for letting us quote too. That really helps. It'll help me start a good discussion. thanks for letting us quote too. That really helps. It’ll help me start a good discussion.

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