The purpose of this blog is to call Christians everywhere away from the temptation to pursue cultural "coolness" and attractiveness rather than biblical faithfulness. Or to put it another way, this blog calls on Christians to follow Jesus in everything, even when it is uncool.
We live in interesting times. Right now, at least in some places, being uncool is cool. We are observing a trend towards valuing authenticity and being repulsed by those who try too hard to fit in with others. One example of this trend can be seen in the rise of popular nerdiness. Shows like The Big Bang Theory feature intellectual, socially awkward characters of the sort many of us made fun of in high school. Now we are wearing their pictures on our t-shirts. In television and magazine ads we are seeing more and more models (especially male models) wearing glasses and sporting an intellectual look. Suddenly, it has become cool to be uncool.
This blog, however, is not about pursuing uncoolness. It is about pursuing faithful obedience to Jesus. It is about standing for the gospel, even when the gospel is unpopular. It is about preaching God's truth, even when people mock or even label that truth as hate speech. This blog is a call for Christians to conform their lives to the teaching of Christ, even when it means sacrificing cool points in the eyes of your friends and relatives. It is also a call for Christian church to conform themselves to Scripture and not to the faddish preferences of those who attend, be they believers or unbelievers.
The posts on this blog always revolve around at least one of the following six moral imperatives.
1. Christians must hold fast to the biblical truth even in a culture that is hostile to that truth.
2. Christians must order their lives, including their ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family to the teaching of Scripture, no matter how out of step these ideas may be with the larger society around them.
3. Christians must reject a life of instability, and turn away from the tendency to conform ourselves to rising and falling fads, be they secular or religious.
4. Christians must worship God as He has commanded, focusing our worship services towards Him, and not on entertaining ourselves.
5. Christians must never stop evangelizing the lost, and we must do this using biblically faithful methods, trusting God to save sinners.
6. Christians must prepare themselves to suffer, perhaps even greatly, because of their allegiance to Christ in these things.
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