How to Stand Out As a Christian
When you learn how to stand out as a Christian, you’re different. You don’t say a word but “stick out like a sore thumb” wherever you go.
Others may not like you because you don’t fit in. In fact, you seem downright peculiar to them.
People couldn’t figure out Moses either.
How to Stand Out as a Christian: You May Seem Scary
Moses was in God’s presence on Mount Sinai and he came back glowing. The Israelites wanted no part of what he had and backed away.
Exodus 34:29-30
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face radiated from speaking with the Lord. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face glowed, and they were afraid to come near him.
I’m guessing Moses glowed like a 100+ watt light bulb producing 1,600 or more lumens of light. He wore a veil over his face to speak to the people and removed it when entering God’s presence.
The Israelites lost faith every time he went to the mountaintop to dwell. But he was called to stand out as their leader. When he was absent, they noticed.
Here’s something to consider. Moses goes up, people fall away. Jesus went up to heaven and people have fallen away from Him. Apparently, it’s hard to live as a faithful follower when you take your eyes off Jesus. Follow the majority and you live the same as the world does.
How to Stand Out As a Christian
- Be the same person behind closed doors: You’re consecrated to God whether you dig ditches, attend your kids’ soccer games or head up a business’s corporate board. Wherever you plant your feet, you commit to God, study His Word, and learn to die to yourself. You don’t have a Jekyll and Hyde faith displaying good and evil.
- Love God, love others: Love others sincerely and deeply and you display your Christian calling card. If you don’t, onlookers see a judgmental and condemning believer who lacks compassion. Jesus gave these two commandments (love God, love others) to His disciples (that’s you and me) before he left for heaven.
- Moral Failure Isn’t a Problem: You never cuss, gamble, watch porn, and get stone drunk. Why? That’s the lifestyle of an unbeliever, not a Christian. The eternal life you gained when Jesus died for your sins means you have moral obligations to keep.
- Salvation is always on your mind: Do you remember when you first became a Christian? You couldn’t wait to tell the first person you met about salvation. Blending in rather than standing out as a Christian means sharing the Gospel message isn’t a priority. You can write, sing, or find other ways to share your Christian faith to deliver Jesus’ message of hope.
- Have the heart of a servant: You don’t care about receiving personal recognition when you minister to others. Your primary goal is the spiritual welfare of others. Your life exemplifies what Jesus said, “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve” (Matthew 20:28).
- Become radical: Jesus loved deeply, didn’t complicate scripture, and healed sick and dying people. He understood the difference between reading scripture and putting its message into practice. Radical Christians actually live what scripture implies and religion doesn’t bind them.
Called To Be Different Bible Verses
When I fail to meditate on scripture, my flesh rises up every time to take over. Scripture keeps my heart from going rogue because it’s filled with spiritual truth rather than worldly ways.
John 15:19
If you’re of the world, the world loves its own; but because you are not of the world, the world hates you.
Romans 12:2
Don’t conform to this world, be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
I Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, to proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Philippians 2:15
Become blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
How to Stand Out As A Christian: Be Different
I John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world passes away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
I Corinthians 9:19-23
For though I am free from all, I am a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. Those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. For the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.
Christians Should Stand Out
Gravitate toward Instagram, Facebook, the internet, and secular movies and you conform to the world’s standards. Follow what’s trending instead of the Holy Spirit, and the world is your top influencer.
When you learn how to stand out as a Christian, you dare to be different and unafraid to display your Christian beliefs. And, you won’t seem like everyone else. Just know, people will misunderstand and reject you. Be determined to exchange a safe, mediocre life where people accept you with a spirit-filled life that pleases God.
Place your affections on God and He will stir up your dead soul. Blending in is never an option.