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The New Normal

1/27/2016

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Are you normal? Most of us want to be considered somewhat normal. Perhaps we are proud of a few ways we are unique, but we don't want others to consider us weird. Do you think this impacts how we think about the practice of our faith? Are we trying to be like other Christians around us? I suspect we all too often are. Let me suggest to you a better measure of what it means to be a normal Christian.  The measure of normal should be the the New Testament description of the Christian life.

Let me suggest to you one characteristic of the normal Christian life. I find it in Romans 8:14 "...those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." By that description a normal Christian life is to be led by the Spirit. 

​So let's expect God to lead us.
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