We are intellectual, non-conformists.

That's the first mark of the Christian lifestyle.

We look at the state, we look at the church, we look at the whole creation from the perspective

of God Himself.

We are called to be non-conformists.

But our non-conformity rests not so much in diet, or in clothes, or that kind of stuff,

but in what?

In transformation of our lives by the renewing of our minds.

That our uniqueness is to be discerned first of all in how we think.

We are intellectual, non-conformists.

That's the first mark of the Christian lifestyle, if it's going to be authentic.

We are intellectual, non-conformists.

We do not buy the values of this world.

We do not buy the axioms of this world.

We do not buy the evaluations or the judgments of this world.

Because we look at the world, we look at man, we look at the state, we look at the church,

we look at the whole creation from the perspective of God Himself, if we have the mind of Christ.

Our non-conformity is to be built upon the transformation of our being by means of the renewal

of our minds through patterning our thinking after the mind of Christ.

And that doesn't come magically, intuitively, or mystically, or experientially.

It comes by rigorous discipleship, discipline, study of the scriptures.

Now, I'm not saying that because a person can recite the right answers to what the Bible

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