RELOVUTIONARY
Philosophy for True Human Flourishing
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Quotational Inspiration for Volume One
One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.
—FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER
The people who love, because they are freed through the truth of God, are the most revolutionary people on earth. They are the ones who upset all values; they are the explosives in human society. Such persons are the most dangerous.
—DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
No man can be a Christian without being a controversialist.
—CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilization... there has been only one—the triumph of Christianity—that can be called in the fullest sense a ‘revolution’: a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity’s prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.
—DAVID BENTLEY HART
Chapter One
You feel the force as you’re motionless in feet. A charging regalia of enormous monstrosity. The sound of intimidation charging to a thousand drumbeats. As your heart skips one, a battalion of singularity moves with one majestic and thunderous noise. Then with another, the trumpeter sounds the war cry as the trunk is unfurled. This is a mighty elephant on the move in full resplendence. This African beauty is alive with chorus.
If size really does matter, it should matter most for the largest terrestrial animal on God’s green earth. An African male elephant can reach a height of thirteen feet (four meters), while weighing some 15,000 pounds (7,000 kgs). This is prodigious in the physical as a prodigal in the spiritual. They are a sight to behold. They are made to roam. Their size and capacity should mean they cannot otherwise be controlled. They should have freedom to thrive. This is an ideal picture of a grand beast in the wilds of their native home. Yet, we know this hasn’t always been the case. There have been elephants who do not see themselves truly, who haven’t grasped all that has been graced in their capacity. They have believed a deception, which they now live as real. They have been admitted into the Circus—the Circus of Lie-f.
It is said that if an elephant is tethered when young, while they will grow physically, their perception of these nascent restrictions will likewise define and confine their future. One small pitiful peg in the ground, attached to one leg by a chain, may as well be a prison cell encasing their world.
How can this be?
I do not think it is beyond belief to suggest that any elephant was providentially created for more than this performance. If they could see themselves truly, they wouldn’t accept these limitations. They would break free. The elephant wasn’t made for this type of servitude, domination, or control. This lifestyle misses the immensity of their creative potential and point.
In Christ, you the reader, have been graced with more capacity to now live than the mighty elephant ever was. Yet, tragically, you can live this life—in Christ—like you are still tethered to a peg in the Enemy’s present world system and circus (Galatians 1:4; 1 Corinthians 7:31; 1 John 5:19).
It is time to break free.
This volume, and those following, are about assisting you to live as the person Christ has redeemed, remade, and is progressively remaking you to be.
Be who you are!
This is your life!
“Your life is worth living, precisely because it is not your life at all.”
And this is your calling into life’s ever-approaching now—to live more practically set free.
To live like Jesus.
This is Relovutionary.
This is True Human Flourishing!
This Is Your Life!
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“RELOVUTIONARY’ clearly demonstrates that Jonny King has something of value to say to the church in these days. I commend his book to you.” —Jeff Crosby, Publisher, InterVarsity Press/USA
PHILOSOPHY FOR TRUE HUMAN FLOURISHING
Each person without exception is desperate for flourishing. Every individual hungers and aches to live an expression of the good life. This compulsion inside is as automatic as it is intuitive. This general human longing reflects a common drive for meaning, and not just for the Christian.
Still, most intimately know they can't entirely do life their way. Whilst the majority readily confess, they haven't the sufficient means, or even the necessary power. After all, look at what happens when a global pandemic shuts down life?! The fact we rarely arrive at contented satisfaction becomes life's own rolling stone.
Do you have a present vision? Are you confident of the process? What about any worthwhile or ultimate goal?
This living challenge becomes even more practically specific for the Christian.
What if someone asked you for the content of a faithful and fruitful life for Christ? What would you say? Now factor in these challenging and confronting cultural times. How would you reply? After all, you sincerely love Jesus, and passionately want to live for Him, which means you're entirely motivated to offer something not only realistic, but true.
But can you?
The good news is that in your hands contain the opening lines, where RELOVUTIONARY intends to be your own personal guide. Volume One introduces this idea, setting the coordinates for the reader's unfolding navigation. The context is huge, only increasing any anticipation on this series' comprehensive value.
This Is Your Life has been genuinely engineered for any curious reader wanting an answer to the absurdity of existence, and for every genuine follower of Jesus Christ, determined to live a life worthy of His calling.
There is no greater promise or purpose than living for Jesus-no matter age, stage, time, or place-which means there should be no further reading delay.
WELCOME TO THE LIFE: RELOVUXIONARY
About the Author
JONATHON WILLIAM KING is a writer, planter and pastor. His journey, like personality, has been eccentrically diverse, consistently distressed with profound weakness through long-term illness changing everything. He’s pioneered diverse media content; written representatively of a world-leading sporting team and brand; launched-and-led a Missional retro clothing start-up within the local fashion sector; also studying for the ministry in another location from his own. He daily plods-the-hustle in his special New Zealand homeland, with beautiful wife, and spirited children.