This is a sermon about two really weird guys. Their strangeness earned them a lot of strange looks from people, including their own families. They totally disregarded the traditional paths to social success, even when those paths were paved with acceptance and ease.
Some people called them crazy. Everybody questioned their motives and methods. But, through their weirdness, these two crazy guys changed the world.
Their strange ways provoke us to re-examine our obsession with conformity. Why do we work so hard and spend so much to look like, sound like, talk like, and sin like everybody else? And what is the true price of ordinary-average-culturally-conformedness?
Find out in a message about the necessity of GODLY WEIRDNESS.
Oh, and those two weird guys were cousins. Their names are John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ.
Listen well.
---Anderson T. Graves II is a writer, community organizer, and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church and the executive director of SAYNO (Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization) in Montgomery, Alabama.
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