God’s Protest Movement

Protest movements have been around for a long time. Many Christians are Protestants! Protesting is in the blood! Some protests even accomplished their goals. Have we forgotten that Jesus himself was a protester?

We are living in a golden age of protest.

Case in point: 10 to 15 million protesters took to the streets from January 2017 through March 2018. That’s probably a higher percentage of the population than the number of people who protested the war in Vietnam. In 2017 and early 2018, protests occurred in all 50 states, including many places where marches and rallies have rarely been seen before.

Will these protests have an impact?

Time will tell.

What we do know is that a number of protest movements have actually changed history. Consider:

• Martin Luther’s 95 Theses instigated both the Reformation and our modern democratic world.
  
  
• The protests against the Stamp Act of 1765 led to the creation of the United States.
  
  
• In the 1930s, thousands of Muslim women and men formed an “army of peace” to protest England’s oppressive occupation of what is now Pakistan.
  
  
• Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of a segregated bus in 1955 Alabama ignited the civil ...