The People’s Revival

America worships greed. Everything is for sale — your health, your housing, even your water. The system teaches you to hoard, to fight your neighbor, to bow down to the false god of comfort. And the church? They’re no better. In fact, they’re worse. They take the offerings meant for the poor and embezzle them into buildings, salaries, sound systems, and parking lots. They call it “the Lord’s work,” but it’s nothing but theft. Christ never commanded a sanctuary of brick and steel — He commanded His people to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.

The People of the Light will not play that game. We share everything that matters — money, time, resources — because redistribution isn’t charity, it’s justice. What comes into our hands does not stay in our hands, and it will never flow back into the pockets of the powerful. It goes directly to the people.

How We Walk It Out

Personally:

Live open-handed. Refuse the lie that your paycheck belongs to you alone. Don’t tip God with ten percent and gorge yourself on the rest. Learn to give more than you keep. And when you meet someone who can’t pay rent, buy groceries, or afford medicine, don’t cover it up with a prayer. Meet the felt needs of the people you contact. Put something real in their hands.

Together in Hubs:

When we gather, we take offerings — not to hoard, not to save, not to build empires. Every dollar is immediately redistributed: rent, groceries, utilities, bail, medical bills, legal help. Nothing is stockpiled, nothing hidden. Unlike the churches who guard their accounts in secret, we keep it public. Everyone sees the needs, everyone sees the disbursements. Justice is visible, immediate, undeniable.

As Activism:

We burn the ledgers of debt. We wipe out payday loans. We strike at medical bills that enslave families. We feed striking workers and keep them standing when bosses want them starved out. And we starve the corporations ourselves — refusing to fund those who exploit the people. Our money becomes a weapon of solidarity and survival, not an offering to Mammon.

The Stand-Out Truth

Christ and the First Church held money with open hands, and there was not a needy one among them. That’s how the Kingdom worked.

But today’s churches embezzle from the poor. They lock away the people’s offerings and pour it into infrastructure, comfort, and luxury. Men like Joel Osteen sit on millions while mothers can’t buy groceries and fathers can’t pay the light bill. They dare to call that God’s will.

This must end. The offering basket was never meant to build monuments of greed. In the hands of the People of the Light, it returns to its true purpose: dismantling poverty and lifting the broken, in real time