The Cancer of Conformity!

The Cancer of Conformity!

Have you ever been stuffed into a locker? I guess that's just something that happens to us nerdy kids. At my core I am extremely claustrophobic! I can't breath, my heart beats rapidly, I imagine the worst case scenario, and I send my brain into overdrive. It is the most uncomfortable feeling that I have ever experienced. Yet so often we try to stuff our spirituality, our relationship with Christ into a box. And if you don't do this to yourself, someone else will try to stuff you in there at first glance of your liberty. I see it all the time in our society but I also see it raging in the church. I see young preachers being put in a box, singer/songwriter's put into a box, ministry leader's put into a box! Why? Because we are so afraid of change, so afraid of something different! Listen, God made each and everyone of us COMPLETELY different! There are no two humans exactly alike on this planet! We wonder why the Gospel is impeded, why the current culture has no place in their heart for the Church or what is says, we wonder why we're seemingly losing a whole generation. It's the cancer of conformity! It takes on the cancer of tradition, the cancer of man made rules, the cancer of arrogant self righteousness and it's killing our churches, our children, and our hope! YOU ARE DIFFERENT! DARE TO BE DIFFERENT! The Word says we are a peculiar people. If you preach, preach the way God tells you. If you sing, sing the way God tells you. If you have a special talent, use it for the Lord even if it's outside of the norm! The church is hyperventilating inside the box of conformity and if we don't set it free it very well could be our demise! So often we ask young

converts to conform to the standards of the church, the standards of our traditions, when the truth is we are called to be transformed by the renewing of our minds into the image of Jesus Christ our Savior! No one would want to go see a movie called "The Conformer's!" but it's been proven people love "The Transformer's!" As a new creature be the you that God made you to be! Be weird, it's contagious! Think for yourself inside the confines of the Word of God! You are different for a reason, to give God the glory he deserves and when you put yourself inside a box of conformity you are limiting what God can do in your life! Jesus made you who you are for a reason so use that reason to make you who God wants you to be inside of Jesus Christ! Stop being scared of change, of being different, or of something new! Everyone worships different, at one time the way you worship was new and contemporary! Lets kill the cancer of conformity with the radiation of our joy as we are transformed by the renewing of our minds!

Romans 12:1-2King James Version (KJV)

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.