FAQs

Mike Genung. After 20 years of working with men and women, many who had been in church for decades, seeing their struggles, and what they were hungry for spiritually, he formed the concept of the Rogue Christian in 2020.

From working with believers over the years, Mike saw that:

• Most Christians are isolated. Upwards of 80% do not meet consistently with another believer for the purpose of support, accountability, and prayer.
• Many are in bondage or struggling in different areas (lust, fear, anger, anxiety, depression) and haven’t been equipped in these areas.
• Know little about spiritual warfare and how to effectively overcome in it.
• Don’t have an effective prayer life
• Many are hungry for more than they’re getting in church, especially in the issues mentioned above.

The above is in spite of the fact that many have been attending churches for decades.

After reading through the book of Acts multiple times and seeing that the early church was “devoted to the teaching of God’s word, prayer, and fellowship” (Acts 2:42) and comparing it to the modern church, the two didn’t line up. The prayer meeting is extinct in many modern churches and in the lives of many believers. This is nothing like the early church, that began with 7 straight days of prayer meetings and then continually met for prayer throughout the book of Acts. The early church knew that prayer was critical to the life of the church and that a prayerless church is powerless if not flesh-driven. Jesus gave us an example of a life of going away often to desolate places for hours of prayer.

First, a Rogue Christian is not a rebel, nor are they are a loner who does the Christian life on their own, which doesn’t line up with Scripture. For R.C. purposes, we use the definition of Rogue as “No longer conforming to a desired standard; a person or organization that does not behave in the usual or acceptable way.” A modern believer who consistently goes away alone for 48 hours alone with God, as Jesus modeled for us, is a Rogue Christian, just as one is who meets consistently with other believers for support, accountability, and prayer, attends prayer meetings, is equipped for spiritual warfare, faces their sin and pain to heal and be free of it, decreases the time spent in entertainment (the average American spends more than 2,000 hours a year in entertainment yet many won’t spend an hour a day with God), and refuses to retire so they can pour their life out until the end.

In essence, a Rogue Christian is a Biblical Christian, not the comfort-driven cultural version.

“We’ve always done church this way;” how many compare modern Christianity with the Bible and decide to align their churches and lives to it?

Comfort. It’s easy to sit and listen to a sermon. Breaking up to pray on a Sunday morning will be intimidating to some.

Fear. We care too much about what others think of us. True, effective prayer comes from the heart. What if others look down on us for how we pray? Being judged is a risk, but once we’re strong in prayer and our relationship with the Lord, what others think won’t matter.

Prayer isn’t a priority. One survey showed that 3% of pastors believe that prayer is a top priority, while another showed the average believer prays 5 minutes a day.

Many haven’t been equipped in the fine art and power of prayer, which includes waiting, listening, speaking, worship, and learning how to align themselves to God.

The way we learn to pray, is to pray, often, which includes going away for long stretches of prayer as Jesus did.

It depends on what you want out of life and how much of God you want. Many modern churchgoers try to have as much of God as they can get while striving for as much of the world and its pleasures and entertainment. They want the benefits of God’s grace and forgiveness without going all-out in their relationship with Him. No early church Christian, many who were persecuted and lost their homes and even their lives, would think this way. Once we start spending hours in prayer it won’t be long until the desire for entertainment begins to dry up.

Reading the Rogue Christian books will get you going. Briefly, meeting with another believer weekly for support, accountability, and prayer once a week, making prayer a top priority (spending at least an hour a day with God), downshifting the time spent in entertainment and pleasure, being equipped in spiritual warfare, and refusing to retire while choosing to pour your life out until the end are the way of a Rogue Christian, among others.

Become one, and share the way of the Rogue Christian with others.