Keep Christianity Weird

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If you've hung around me for any length of time, you know that I am weird. I am awkward, I say all the wrong things, I'm too loud, I don't fit in. I like angles - circle and squares are boring. Rainy days are made for me. I don't like people. Being different is one of my best assets. I like the fact that I'm different. So, when I saw this book, my thought was 'if it's about being weird like me, I've got to read it'!

Michael Frost continues to challenge me to be bold and brave to think and live differently (weirdly)!

Many Christians have become comfortable letting the world mold them, instead of being set apart by God. And many churches have traded in their biblical roots for complacent conventionality. But Jesus and the church are anything but conventional. 

If our churches are filled with people not living weird and instead living the same way everybody else is, then what do we as Christians have to commend?

The church needs more innovators. We need more rule-breakers, and risk takers. We serve and obey an eccentric and weird king, so we should be thinking outside of the box or paying no attention to the box to begin with, that is the challenge.

 Christians should be living weird lives. Because weird people, those who see things differently, change things. and push the human race forward. And because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who usually do.

The hallmark of our faith is that it sees the world differently than the world sees itself.

Here’s to us crazy ones - keep it real ya'll!

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.

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