The People’s Revival

Once upon a time, the church spoke truth to power. Now it rents the microphone from it.

Once, pulpits thundered against Pharaoh and Mammon. Now they’re branded with logos, sponsored by banks, and tied to corporate donor boards that would crucify Christ again if He walked into their sanctuary unannounced.

This is not persecution.

This is purchase.

The moral collapse of American Christianity didn’t start in the streets—it started in the boardrooms of the Moral Majority. When Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan, and the new breed of “family values” evangelicals shook hands in the 1980s, they weren’t forming a revival. They were signing a merger.

They baptized capitalism in holy water and called it “blessing.”

They confused corporate prosperity with divine favor.

And in doing so, they sold Christ to Caesar for thirty pieces of deregulation.

Stand-Out Truth: The Gospel of Growth Replaced the Gospel of Grace

Reagan told America that greed was good. The church rebranded it as “good stewardship.”

Corporations needed a moral face for the machine, and the Moral Majority gladly volunteered.

They promised to sanctify wealth while sanctifying war, to bless the billionaire while cursing the poor.

They traded the Sermon on the Mount for the prosperity gospel—an unholy alliance between Wall Street and the sanctuary, the CEO and the televangelist.

What was once the Body of Christ became a sales department.

What was once the Table of Fellowship became a fundraising banquet.

And what was once the Cross—a declaration that love is stronger than power—became a logo for political dominance.

Now we work 40 to 60 hours a week, exhausted and anxious, told that our worth depends on productivity, not personhood.

We are catechized by quarterly profits instead of parables.

Our Sabbath is gone, our rest outsourced, our community dissolved into gig labor and debt slavery.

Meanwhile, the churches that should have stood with the laborers joined the landlords.

They preached obedience instead of justice, order instead of mercy, charity instead of change.

Call to Action: Break the Covenant with Pharaoh

If the church wants resurrection, it must first repent.

We must tear up the marriage certificate between Mammon and the Messiah.

Because you cannot serve both. You cannot wave the flag of empire and carry the cross of Calvary.

The Kingdom of God isn’t trickle-down—it’s turn-the-tables-over.

It’s distributive, not extractive. It multiplies bread instead of hoarding it.

It lifts the poor rather than lecturing them. It restores dignity to workers, to mothers, to immigrants, to every soul crushed under the gears of the “free market.”

Our worth was never in our output.

Our calling was never to consume, but to commune.

And our freedom was never meant to be bought on credit.

Practical Suggestions: Reclaim the Revolution of Enough

Work less, share more.

Form cooperatives, not corporations.

Rebuild Sabbath as resistance.

Unplug the pulpit from corporate money.

Stop letting donations dictate doctrine.

Invest in people, not profits.

Housing, food, healthcare—these are not “entitlements,” they are the infrastructure of love.

Build Hubs, not hierarchies. Gather in homes, community centers, union halls—where faith meets real life, not gated religion.

Final Word: Let’s Build Something Better

Capitalism didn’t just distort the church—it discipled it. It taught us to see blessing where there was exploitation, to see “calling” in overwork, to see “favor” in greed.

But the Light still breaks through the cracks.

There’s another way—a working-class faith that remembers the Christ who flipped tables, fed multitudes, and walked away from the halls of power.

Let’s build that again.

Let’s resurrect the Church that cannot be bought.

Let’s build something better.