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However, I can guarantee that you have fallen for peer pressure at least once and have been sucked into some sort of conformity. Maybe it isn't wearing name brand sweaters or listening to musical hits. Instead, you may be hanging out with friends who all hate a certain type of music or like to spend their nights playing video games. Somehow, their interests have inspired your interests and now you enjoy something you wouldn't have discovered by yourself. This is where Jesus' teaching comes in,,
High school is definitely the spot to see the effects of conformity. Step into a high school or middle school and you will find that almost everyone is wearing the same clothing, has the same type of hairstyle and spends their weekends doing the same things, either partying, working, or just hanging out. Not that there is anything wrong with having a cool hairstyle that looks like everyone else's or wearing brands that everyone notices. I'm just trying to make my point in saying that teenagers are known to conform to their peers. I know we constantly think we are the special ones that aren't like everyone else, and hopefully we are. I once heard this quote that said, '' You are unique..... just like everyone else''. Everyone thinks they're the unique ones.
Conformity
Once at the end, i stepped outside to walk to the usual place that my mom picks me up. I decided to go with a new route this one time and pass through the massive crowds of teenagers underneath our skywalk. I couldn't belive my eyes at first, yet as I looked again, I saw that absolutely everyone was wearing Hollister or some sort of name brand shirt. All the girls had the same big hair and the guys were wearing tight pants with slip on shoes. Everyone looked the same to me. I almost started laughing because I realized that all of these people, whether they knew it or not, looked and acted the same. They all seemed to walk the same and were texting on their cell phones.
1 Peter 2:11, ''Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against you soul.'' (We're aliens?)
Rom 12:2, ''Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.'' (Yes, his will is PERFECT!)
How does one even stick out among peers? Let's look at Jesus as our example. Jesus sefied the unwritten laws of conformity by hanging out with sinners and by healing on the Sabbath. These things were absolutely unheared of! He would not stop preaching even if people made fun of him or told him that he was wrong. People even went so far as to kill him.
The problem is, it is so difficult to act like we're not of this world! We like things and do things subconsciously because we want someone to acknowledge us so we think we're not freaks. But, Jesus' teaching says the opposite. We don't even need human approval because we're supposed to be impressing God.
Wait. What?! You mean we're NOT supposed to conform to the pattern of this word? We're not like everyone else? We're ALIENS?! The answer is, yes1
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Someone else who defied laws of conformity is John the Baptist. The man looke like he was living in a cove for goodness sakes! Yet, these people that we admire so greatly are the ones that stuck out in their times. They were the outcasts.
