Kingdom Swagger

Okay so this was all one long blog, but I broke it up into two different ones because it was just too long. lol And also because although they are connected, they are somehow very different. I leave you to decide the differences.....

After I wrote the first part I began wondering about Christianity..... Where is our swagger? God is on OUR side! And God holds the power of the world in His hands. Greater is He that's in us, than he that's in the world. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. Where is our swagger?

When we praise God, we halt the advance of the enemy. When we pray we affect changes in the supernatural realm. God's NEW mercy greets us every morning. And His grace pursues us. Where is our swagger?

Philipians 1:6 says: "...being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That means that He's constantly developing us! Even as we mess up.... Even as we try to follow His Will..... Even when we have no intention of following His Will..... Even when we repent and come back to Him..... Where is our swagger?

On our school campuses. On our jobs. With our roommates. Heck, just walking to your car (or - bus stop)!! You hear people cussin, and gettin down with their sin swag. You see half naked people boldly gettin' down with their lust swag. You see people just living, gettin down with their fake reality swag. The most recent one was Prop 8 where TONS of people BOLDLY got down with their sexual crossfire swag.... And tried to take the country with them! THAT stirred people. Christians, and non-Christians alike. But - although that was good, and praise God that we won this time..... Why did it come to that before the Christians were open? Before the Christians were bold? Before the Christians abandoned the "nice" terminology? Where in God's Creation is our swagger?

Not being fully unashamed of who we are. Keeping our Christian status on the low, not as a tactic to infiltrate particular people's lives and THEN reveal who we are, but just cuz it's comfortable. Believing the lie that either you're a quiet Christian or a brow beating Christian. Is our God not a God of balance? Is He not both the Lion AND the Lamb? The Grace Giver AND the Judge? The fork in your road - one choice leading to Heaven and the other choice leading to Hell? Where is our swagger?

We are ROYALTY. Friends of God. Children of God. What Prince or Princess of a vast nation walks around as anything less than who he/she is? Dialing your status down or altering it for ministry's sake only works if you recognize who you are. Then you can dial down and do what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9:22 - "I have become all things to all men, so that by all means possible I might save some." Paul probably had the most swag out of anyone in the whole New Testament (excepting Jesus of course - lol). He learned to be content with much and with little. He talked with kings and with beggars. Taught Jews and Gentiles. NEVER ABANDONING WHO HE WAS. Swag. Paul had that Kingdom Swagger we all need to emulate. And only emulate that as a model to discovering and developing our own individual measure of Kingdom Swagger that is in each of us.

C'mon people. Christians. Where's our swagger? Non-Christians - be bold enough to approach Christianity with your own thoughts and logic. Your own swagger. No one elses.

Cuz you know what matters in the end?

What will give us that "stuff" that the Bible heroes had?

You know what will take our pursuit of Christ to the next level?

Kingdom Swagger.

And Kingdom Swagger can only be achieved through rebelling against the "norm" of the world. Of the "norm" of a stagnant, Christian life. Where's our swagger?


"Jesus was a rebel, a renegade, outlaw/ A sanctified troublemaker but He never sinned, naw/ And He lived His life by a different set of Rules/ The culture ain't approve/So you know they had they had to bruise em/ That's the way they do/ Man, they swear they so gangsta but everyones the same/ Everybody do the same stuff/ Tattoos, piercing/ Smokin' up and drinking/ Money and sex plus them extravagant weekends/"

~ Lecrae - Rebel, "Rebel Intro"

"Hung on the cross for hours while still in his prime/ We don't call him heir for nothing, he showing us hang time/ He is holy, he is perfect, he is God/ God is like three in one, man its so odd/ Because of all this, your boy gotta keep running/ 99 wont do it gotta keep it 100/"

~Sho Baraka - Turn My Life Up, "100"