1. “WEiRD is Better”

2. WEiRD
“WEiRD is Better”

3. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Two thoughts:
IF YOU WANT WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE HAVE, DO WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE DO.

4. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Two thoughts:
IF YOU WANT WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE HAVE, DO WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE DO.
IF YOU WANT WHAT FEW PEOPLE HAVE, DO WHAT
FEW PEOPLE DO.

5. 1 Peter 1:16 “…Be holy, because I am holy.”
WEiRD
“WEiRD is Better”
1 Peter 1:16
“…Be holy, because I am holy.”

6. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” 1 Peter 1:16 “…Be holy, because I am holy.”
Holy: to be pure, to set apart,
to be different.

7. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Psalm 69:9-10
For zeal for Your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. 10 When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach...

8. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Psalm 69:11-12
…11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, And I am the song of the drunkards.

9. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Inward Pressure:
THE NEED TO PLEASE.
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare, But he who trusts in the Lord will be exalted.

10. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Outward Pressure:
CRITICISM.
John 15:18-19 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love
its own; but because you
are not of the world, …

11. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Outward Pressure:
CRITICISM.
John 15:19 “…but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. …

12. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Outward Pressure:
CRITICISM.
John 15:20 “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ ...

13. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Outward Pressure:
CRITICISM.
John 15:20 “…If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep
yours also.”

14. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” Pressure to Conform to the Norm:
The Outward Pressure:
CRITICISM.
Matthew 5:10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

15. WEiRD “WEiRD is Better” I Can’t Please Everyone, But I Can Please GOD.
1 Thessalonians 2:4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men,
but God…