1) To draw near to the Lord.  We love prayer and fasting here at the Revolution Brigade.  We pray for revival.  We fast for the Lord to raise up an army of young people who will be totally sold out for the cause.  But, the revival is not the reward for prayer and fasting.  The movement is not the reward.  The reward is the intimacy with Jesus that we get from removing the barriers of the flesh from between us and Him.   Revival and the Militant Faith Movement are just nice byproducts of our awesome relationship with Jesus.  Radical Christianity is more about the King than it is about the Kingdom.

2) Raise a Prophetic Army. We believe that it is the Lord’s desire to raise an end-time prophetic army that will burn with a pure passion and devotion to His cause.  We believe that this army of prayer warriors will be instrumental in ushering in the coming of Christ because of their fanatical devotion to the bridegroom God.  We exist to recruit, train, and equip the forward-most elements of this army.  Radical Christianity is about strapping on your combat boots and doing something for God.

3) Expeditionary Love. We eat, sleep, and breathe a love for the nations.  We desire to see the knowledge of God’s glory fill the whole Earth, as the water covers the seas.  We will get “expeditionary” in our love for the nations.  In other words, we’ll go places and do things that will cause the nations to turn to Christ.  We’re raising an Army.  Armies fight.  We will contend for the nations through crack squads of intercessory masters, raised up and equipped through the anointing of the Holy Spirit for world-changing prayer.  Radical Christianity is about exporting God’s love to the entire world.

4) Awaken a sleeping generation.  If the Revolution Brigade is the “spiritual special forces” of the coming Nazarite Army, then the rest of the generation will be the general infantry.  We believe that this generation is the “valley of bones” spoken of in Ezekiel chapter 37, and we are prophesying to them to wake up, stand up, and receive flesh.  The world sees dry bones, but we see an army.  Radical Christianity is about seeing with the Lord’s eyes and believing in people.

You don’t know who you’re messing with.  This thing is for real.  The Militant Faith Movement is on the scene.

I believe that, although this may be true of the majority, there exits a spiritual  remnant who possesses the capacity and desire for great adventure.  I also believe that the Kingdom of God provides ample opportunity to get out there and love somebody.  I call it “Expeditionary Love.”

I presume that we know what love is.  I probably shouldn’t.  In the famous words of D.C. Talk, Love is a verb.  We should strive to live a life like Jesus ”and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Ephesians 5:2).”  Notice how Jesus loved us by giving himself and by sacrificing. These are not sedentary terms.  These are terms of action.  So now, what about this “expeditionary” thing?

Dictionary.com defines “expeditionary” as the following: Sent on or designed for military operations abroad.

This definition brings up three interesting points.  First, being part of an expeditionary endeavor indicates that you have been “sent.”  It’s not just a mission, it’s a co-mission between you and the Lord.  Secondly, your expeditionary acts of love are a military weapon.  That’s what the military does, it brings weapons to bear on an enemy.  Third, these things happen abroad, as in not in your living room.

2 Corinthians 5:14 says that,  ”Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.”  To compel somebody is to cause them to do something.   Christ’s love for us, if we are in right relationship with Him, should compel us to do certain things:

Missions trips across the globe are acts of expeditionary love.

Witnessing in the streets of your local city is an act of expeditionary love.

Prayer and fasting to contend for a generation is an act of expeditionary love.

Enough with the status quo.  Let’s get expeditionary and engage the nations of the Earth with the life changing love of Jesus Christ.