I am not a radical because of what I wear, eat or drink, or that I adhere to any kind of philosophy or religious tenet.  I am a radical because “I live by the faith of the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20), which means that I walk as Jesus walked before God His Father.

I am a radical because I have fellowship with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1:3).  As Jesus revealed, “As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by Me” (John 6:57).  If we live by Jesus, we are to live as He lives before His Father.  How did Jesus live before His Father?  Jesus tells us, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father doeth, what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19).  In another place, Jesus said that “I speak to the world those things which I have heard of Him” (John 8:26).

We are to do the same.  We are to walk as Jesus walked (1 John 2:6).

Therefore, a radical is one who:

• humbles himself to walk with God through Christ Jesus by confessing that Jesus is Lord;
• believes that “Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4);
• denies himself, takes up his cross daily, and follows Jesus.  To follow Jesus means to live by Jesus and to walk as Jesus walked before His Father;
• walks in Faith, Hope, and Love;
• responds to others by responding in Love and Compassion to their needs and according to their faith.  A radical does not see people as they are, but as they could be in the same way that Jesus did;
• does not judge nor condemn, but is compassionate and seeks to reconcile the person with God the Father regardless of sex, creed, infirmity, nationality or culture.