Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction. Proverbs 29:18 (NIV)

The Jesus Movement came out of a time when social restraint was at an all time low. One of the most popular bumper stickers in the early 1970s was “QUESTION AUTHORITY.” It was the end of the turbulent ‘60s. The Vietnam war, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the struggle for civil rights, the widespread use of drugs and free sex, and student unrest had fired up a generation of baby boomers reaching maturity and resisting authority, expressing their newfound freedom with wild abandon. It was a generation without a prophecy — without revelation — without any awareness of the word of God and the result, as this proverb proclaims was a casting off of all restraint.  When there’s no vision, there is chaos.

It was thrilling at first — a sense of total freedom and throwing off of all authority, but soon the excesses turned dangerous. People started to O.D. on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases robbed the joy out of free love. Distrust set in and there was no means of measuring truth. It was like what the Bible says in the Old Testament when everyone did what was right in their own eyes. The stage was set for Jesus to bring love, justice and a spiritual reality that filled the void found in the center of so many lost souls.

“Where there is no prophecy the people cast off restraint,” the proverb says, but conversely when revelation comes from God and prophecy is proclaimed, something solid is born. There is authority we can trust in the word of God. There is actual joy in the discovery of right and wrong. Prophecy leads people to their purpose. “Blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.” That’s because Jesus said the truth would make us free and the Jesus People discovered that freedom. They thought they were free before, but it was anarchy they were experiencing that lead ultimately to the opposite of freedom — bondage and despair. The revelation of the word of God brought a revolution of spiritual wholeness.

Today, the same thing is true. The 21st century generations are lost without a vision. Where is the prophet? What is the prophecy? When the authority is an authoritarian regime and people get their own brand of truth off the internet, how can truth be found? As before, everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes. We need a revelation of the word of God to bring about a revolution of spiritual completeness.

We at the Catch are dedicated to proclaiming the revelation of God’s word as it relates to our current cultural environment. And we are dedicated to delivering that message to 21st century generations by walking alongside and sharing the word, one person at a time — “a quiet kind of revolution coming down on us from the sky.”

Join us as we give Christ a voice for this century.