Any movement, cause, church or organization can only last so long by simply saying what they are against.  That will eventually wear a little thin.  The motivation of being against something will inevitably begin to wane.  It just won’t last.  It can’t last.  At some point, every movement, cause, church or organization must take a stand and state clearly what it believes.

It’s easy to sit back and take pot shots at something.  Anyone can do that.  It takes no skill, energy, intelligence or creativity to bluntly criticize while offering no other feedback or potential solutions.  In fact, I try to pay no attention to those types of armchair critics.  Instead, people should first enter the arena and try to accomplish something themselves before they ever begin to voice their opinions.

I recently listened to a podcast by Andy Stanley where he was stressing that we should become students instead of critics.  He said that he tries to never criticize anything before he first gets to a point where he can actually defend it.  I loved that.

The truth is that it’s easy to be a rebel but hard to be a revolutionary.  Rebels just revolt and criticize and bemoan all the problems of every system, and the world itself.  Revolutionaries see the problems too but they work to chart a new course, a potential solution, and then, most importantly, they endeavor to live that new course out.

Let’s be revolutionaries, when warranted, and lead the fight for positive changes in our world but let’s refrain from being bold but, ultimately, do-nothing critics.