Do People Think You’re Crazy?

The Apostle Paul tells Christians in Corinth, “if in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied . . . But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep”. We do have hope because of Jesus’ resurrection. If that hope is real to us, then the way we live, the things we spend money on, and everything we do looks different than those in our mission field. 

In other words, Paul tells us that we should live in a way that makes folks wonder if we’ve got a few screws loose. They should see such a massive difference that they may even pity us, because they don’t get the seemingly-illogical, erratic decisions we make. Because of Jesus’ work in us, our lives, choices, and decisions are marked by gospel abnormality.