Christians are a peculiar people. God describes us that way in His Word. We are not of this world as He is not of this world (John 17:16). We are “strangers and temporary residents” here (1 Peter 2:11) because “our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20). We are not supposed to fit in. We are to love and serve the world, but we were not intended to mirror it.
A church is a community of peculiar people, a gathering of the “called out ones.” A church is a holy gathering of people who have been called out of darkness and into his wonderful light, people who no longer really fit in this world.
So church should be a bit strange. What a community of peculiar people believes and holds to will be a bit freakish to the world. Therefore, your church should be seen as a bit odd, freakish, and otherworldly. Here are five peculiar things a church must do.... Keep reading
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