Normal

We were driving by the Civic Center the other day and noticed lots of teenagers in line for a concert.  They were all dressed in black.  I said to Steve, "They are hoping to look different from everyone else, but they all look the same."

Do we have a goal of being normal?  What is normal?  And is it such a great goal to have?

Joe's sermon today talked about how the the Greatest Commandment calls us to love God with everything we have and everything we are.  He said that isn't really normal -- normal would be to love God, yes, but not with everything.

Christianity is radical, not normal.

And then Joe said what I thought was the most profound sentence of his sermon.  "If Jesus had been normal, they wouldn't have crucified him."