{"id":2187,"date":"2012-01-18T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T09:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2016-01-06T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T13:51:27","slug":"a-very-british-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/carls-thoughts\/a-very-british-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very British Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">People love big events. You get a buzz, \u00a0big sound, big names, big crowd\u2026you leave feeling ready to take on the world. I\u2019ve got nothing against a big event or a mega church. Both are great for a preach! I just don&#8217;t think its where the real revolutionary work happens.<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Revolution power is in the grass roots. \u00a0It always has been.<\/p>\n<p>Last year CVM (Christian Vision for Men) saw its network run\u00a0<em>at least<\/em>\u00a04.5k outreach events, that communicated Jesus to tens of thousands of men. We reached even more through podcasts, magazines and all sorts of creative endeavours. Because we don\u2019t hold it in a stadium or over an event weekend,\u00a0no ones\u00a0seen us coming. We don\u2019t shout about it that often either.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah sure we run big events but we hold them in regions. We must have seen thousands of men at regional events last year. But no ones seen us coming because we keep it grass roots and regional and only shout about it in the area its happening.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve managed to establish bases from Belfast to Cambodia with another four nations scheduled in for the next 24 months. But no ones seen it coming\u2026you get the drift.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just the organisation that I lead. In the grass roots there are radical revolutionaries quietly getting on with it who you have never heard of and probably will never hear from, unless you are in their orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Is that a very British Kingdom revolution? \u00a0No it\u2019s just the Kingdom way\u2026and its the most effective. \u00a0Crucially it\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0require someone to be the biggest\u00a0gorilla\u00a0in the room.<\/p>\n<p><em>Carl Beech will be speaking at the CVM Strategic Prayer and Praise Day on February 25 in Market Harborough Evangelical Church. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/events\/events_detail.php?eventsID=46\">Reserve your place here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/carls-thoughts\/a-very-british-revolution\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People love big events. You get a buzz, \u00a0big sound, big names, big crowd\u2026you leave feeling ready to take on the world. I\u2019ve got nothing against a big event or a mega church. Both are great for a preach! I just don&#8217;t think its where the real revolutionary work happens. 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