What is a Peculiarite Anyway?

Hello. My name is Peter Farrell, aka "Peculiar Pete". I am thirteen years old and have been saved since August 15, 2005. (CLICK HERE to go to my profile.) I'm starting this blog to do several things. First of all, to glorify my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and second, to motivate you to grow in your walk with God.

As Christians, we need to be Peculiarites. In Titus 2:14 God commands that we be "a peculiar people, zealous of good works". Noah Webster described the word peculiar in his 1828 dictionary as "belonging to a nation, system or other thing, and not to others". As children of God we no longer belong to this world, but are adopted into the family of God. We are to love the things that God loves, and hate the things that God hates. We need to be fully set aside for His work.

In what we commonly call Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount" found in Matthew chapter five, our Saviour tells us that we need to be "salt in the earth", "the light of the world", "a city that is set on a hill", and "a candlestick". Each of these things shows a peculiararity (yes, I did make up that word) to what is common. When the world is dark in sin, we need to be the light that reflects the glory of our God! The unsaved should notice a difference in us that is so unmistakable, so unavoidable, that they just have to see it. We ought to be so conformed to Him that there is no way that they can escape our light. The glorious radiance of Jesus Christ should shine from us so brightly, that it nearly blinds them! That is the way that Jesus commands us to live, and it's the way that the men of God throughout the history of the Church have lived. Call me crazy, but I never read of Paul listening to a rock band that decided that they would label themselves as being "Christian" because they liked the sound of it. Holy men of God like the Apostles were separate from the world. They were sanctified and on-fire for the work of the Lord.

Sadly however, I don't see this separation in the walk of the average Christian in our day and age. Christians love the world! They love the music of the world, they love the clothes of the world, they love the speech of the world, they love the places of the world, but they're sure that they are born-again. I just don't get it!

I was involved in an event for teenagers last week and was disgusted at what I saw. Hundreds of teens who professed the name of Jesus dressed just like the world, talking just like the world, listening to nausiating "Christian" rock music, and hugging their boyfriends and girlfriends! I left that night with a heart broken for the non-peculiar Christians that are so prominent in the Laodicean Church Age in which we live.

Why don't people get it? You can't get salt water and fresh out of the same faucet. It doesn't work! The very same way you can't get God and world out of the life of a Christian. It doesn't work either...

With that said, I would like to introduce you to the Peculiarite blog. Not only will the posts be to encourage those living the faith, but also to encourage those who are not, to get moving. To get on-fire for God, and to become "a peculiar people, zealous of good works".

I can only imagine what the Church would be able to accomplish for the Gospel if everyone who professed to have a relationship with Jesus, became all that they could for God. Different than the world.

Just to set the record strait, my email address is pete@peculiarite.com, the address of the blog is www.Peculiarite.com, and the address of our feed is feeds.feedburner.com/peculiarite.