Original Revolution

Download or read book Original Revolution written by John Howard Yoder and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-10-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus created around himself a voluntary society that was counter to everything his society knew or expected. Jesus gave his members a new way to deal with offenders, with violence, with money, with leadership, with a corrupt society. He gave them a new pattern of relationships between man and woman, and an enlarged understanding of what it means to be human. This is the original revolution: the creation of a distinct community with its alternate set of values and its coherent way of incarnating them. Such a group is not only a novelty, but is also, if lived faithfully, the most powerful tool of social change.