Peculiar: Part 1

I would like to paraphrase something I read in "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. Speaking of those who follow Christ Francis said; "Something is wrong when our lives make sense to the world." Which got me thinking about the King James rendition of 1 Peter 2:9; "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a PECULIAR people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." Which has me thinking of ways that I; as one who claims to follow Christ; can be peculiar or not make any sense to the world. It is not difficult to systematize the different ways in which I can be peculiar, because they easily fall into one of two categories. First, there are ways that I would rather not be peculiar and then there are the ways that would like to think that I am, or that I am becoming, peculiar.

WAYS THAT I DO NOT WANT TO BE PECULIAR
or
(Dear God in heaven I hope that these are not the things about my
life that people who don't follow you find incomprehensible.)

1. A dogged condemnation of all rated R movies...accept those that have the words: the, passion, of, the, and Christ in them.
2. A fear of all number sixes and a love for all number sevens.
3. The only jokes I tell end with the words Bill and or Hillary Clinton.
4. When excited I end my sentences with a gutteral "a" sound.
5. I don't play cards. But I do play UNO and ROOK.
6. I am not looking forward to 9/9/2009 or 10/10/2010 or 11/11/2011 or 12/12/2012, because something bad might happen on those days.
7. I am looking forward to 9/9/2009 and 10/10/2010 and 11/11/2011 and 12/12/2012 because something good might happen on one of those days.
8. I am working on a article entitled, "9 Reasons Why Jesus will Return in 2009," and a revision entitled, "10 Reasons Why Jesus will Return in 2010."
9. I have an underground pantry filled with food and guns so that I will be able to eat and defend my food against the hungry looting hordes that might attack me and my family when the United States is finally judged by God the way it deserves to be judged by God.
10. I am a pentecostal (and I am a pentecostal) who is saddened by the evangelistic potential that was wasted on Billy Graham because as far as I know, he hasn't been baptized with the Holy Ghost and doesn't speak in tongues.

These are just a few of the things that I hope don't mark me as being peculiar. Next time we will look at a list of ways that I HOPE my life is not easy for the world to comprehend.

Blessings,
PB