{"product_id":"9780891126041","title":"How to Start a Riot: Support Your Local Jesus Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eA story about shipwrecks, snakebites, beatings, meetings, and other church events. The way of Jesus has always been wilder than we think and more dangerous than we'd like. This is a book about what it means to belong to the community of God—a book about how to Support Your Local Jesus Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen was the last time you saw crowd control at a church?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you ask most people—at least Western people—what they think about Christianity, they will probably give you a pretty domesticated vision of church. Indeed, almost half of Americans think that religion is at best irrelevant and obsolete, and at worst a way of making the world a worse place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what if church was more than just a place to get a bulletin so you can get 10% off at lunch? What if we tried to get back to what the earliest Christians did? Even if it was unpopular, even if it started a riot?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is why Acts of the Apostles is so important. The four Gospels are followed by a book about what the people of God did. Because the gospel leads to action. It leads to a different kind of people embodying a different way of life. And as Western Christianity becomes more assimilated into Western culture, it is good for us to notice not just what the earliest Christians said and thought, but what they did. Acts is a manifesto of a people who went all over the known world proclaiming that Jesus is Lord and that God is doing a new thing that is available for anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abilene Christian University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009332953328,"sku":"9780891126041","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780891126041_p0.jpg?v=1763848377","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780891126041","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}