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Don’t Do Normal
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
No seriously, you’re reading the blog of a Children’s Pastor… and seemingly remaining interested… unless you just searched for the term ‘Don’t Do Normal’ and this page came up, which raises two very important points… 1 Thanks Google, and 2 Why can’t people who are searching for ‘How to give away one million dollars’ come here?
(Hmm… just writing that down has increased my chances)
So what are you doing here?
You are set apart not just as a believer in Jesus Christ, but a person who may be called to minister to children! You are like a statistic within a statistic, a piece of a piece of a pie.
- You are unusual
- You are counter-cultural
- You are different
- You are standing out
- You are separate, distinct and set apart
- You are peculiar, unconventional and too some, strange
- You are contrary not to the Word of God, but to the world
- You are an visiting alien here for a specific purpose and goal
- You are opposed, not to the world but to anything that exalts itself against the Kingdom of God
- You are anything but average
YOU’RE A DEVIATION FROM THE NORM
Once you become a follower of Jesus normal just isn’t good enough anymore. You are part of the world that is to come… The Kingdom of God is here… and yet to come. The Jews were not expecting Jesus. They expected a conquering king, a strong soldier. He would free them from all their enemies. He would change the way that they lived. There would be freedom from the rule of their enemies.
This is what the religious leaders got in Matt 5… the beatitudes
- The way up is down
- The way in is out
- The way first is last
- The way of success is service
- The way of strength is weakness
- The way of security is vulnerability
- The way of protection is forgiveness
- God’s power is made perfect… in our weakness
- Want to become great? Become least.
- Want to discover yourself? Forget your self.
- Want to ‘get even’? Bless and love them.
- Jesus didn’t just tell us to turn the other cheek we have to turn our hands and heart toward the other and do good.
You’re not normal, so don’t pretend to be.
I am a big fan of different. I became addicted to different at one time in my life only for different sake. But like you are saying when we become lock step with Jesus in our passions and values and do the same things He would do that truly is different.
Great post.
Great thoughts, great posts. I believe our fear of being differet may just be the biggest thing slowing us down. Some may be scared to be different others want to be different just to be different. I see too many people stop wanting to be like Jesus and simply want to be different (especially in the Christian world). We called to be like Him and when we are we are different. I like it, thanks for keeping us in check. Now lets go and be the same as Christ which is different,