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Hey guys, Pastor B here.

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So there's been a meme, it makes its way around every so often and it's made its way back.

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And every year I share it with a little message.

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This year I figured it's going to be no different, just how I'm going to go about it is going

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to be a little different.

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So here we are.

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And the meme itself, it says we aren't called to be like other Christians.

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We're called to be like Christ.

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And this is good.

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This is great.

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But this isn't something that people should just really pass off.

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There's far too many people out there, including pastors, who forget this.

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They want everyone around them to fit into this cookie cutter mold, but that's not the

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goal.

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We're all unique, we all have our own path, we all have our own relationship with Jesus.

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And that's how it's supposed to be.

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The Bible even talks about how when it comes to the church and different groups of people,

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how we're all different parts of the bride of Christ.

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We all have something special and something unique, but we all work together like your

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right hand and your left hand.

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So I'll ask, did Jesus just go to see certain disciples in his life and nobody else?

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No.

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Did he just go to certain locations?

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No.

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He went out to the world that he needed to around him.

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And he found the hurting, he found the lost, the lepers, the murderers, the fishermen,

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the desperate, the blind, the hungry, and so on and so forth.

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There's so many, and these are the same people that so many are just so quick to shame or

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ignore and push to the side and forget about.

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Why?

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Because they have their quote unquote, their own problems, right?

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But these are Christians.

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We didn't even say this is the non-Christians because it's all of us that are doing this.

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So I'll remind you, we're not here to fit into the cookie cutter mold.

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That's the way of the world.

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That's what the enemy wants.

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We're here to break free of the mold.

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That's why Jesus came, is to break us out of the mold.

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As the word says, to break the chains.

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So we need to stop conforming to the world and conforming to the image of what is good

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because there's good, good people out there.

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They're hurting.

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They just need a little help.

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And if the smile is all you have to give, then give it, give it freely.

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But don't be like other so-called Christians.

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Don't be like the world.

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Don't be like other being like Christ.