We’re to be set apart, totally holy, totally different not in some areas but in every area of life.  Our lives are meant to be so inexplicably different, such a conundrum, to those around us that they can’t help but eventually ask us why?

How do we reach the world around us for Jesus?  How do we share with them the good news that sin and death are defeated; that there is forgiveness and freedom from shame and guilt and judgment if they will repent and believe in him?  How do we tell people that they can be reconciled to God and know peace with him when they don’t even realise they aren’t at peace with him?

I wonder how you’d answer those questions?  Often as Christians and as churches we make a faulty step of logic as we try to answer them.  We think that we need make Christianity and Christ more attractive to the world.  How?  By dialling down the difference between what we believe and what they believe, between how we live and how they live.

We need to be like the paint colour chart, we’re blue, just like society, just one hue removed, just with a different Sunday morning than our neighbour, colleagues, friends, and family.

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