Lion Chasers - Normality Is Overrated
Here are some of my last thoughts on In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day. It’s been a great book and a quick, easy read. I would particularly recommend it to anyone who is facing a major challenge ahead of them. This book will inspire you to not only face that thing head on, but actually chase it if it turns to run. Mark does an amazing job of reframing our problems and opposition as opportunities for us to capture the dreams that God has given us. And I love the fact that it is Mark’s first book. You can sense the passion and newness. It doesn’t have that hey-I-got-a-clever-idea-let’s-write-a-book-and-make-more-money feel.
The last chapter is probably the most inspiring.
“Normality is overrated.”
“Too many people in too many churches look too much alike. And what you end up with is a herd of cloned Christians that look alike, talk alike, think alike, and dress alike. “
“If anyplace ought to celebrate diversity, it ought to be the church.”
“Maturity doesn’t equal conformity.”
Great thoughts. I think there is a genius about being weird… being different. The things that make you unique are usually the things you have to fight for the most to not conform to everyone else around you.