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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