A short YouTube monologue urging parents to teach their children to "stand out" from worldly norms rather than simply fit in with peers. The speaker uses personal family examples (mentions son, grandkids, great-grandkids and a shy child named Ezra) and frames the message theologically—saying Christians should expect to be outcasts and not conform to the world.
Mentioned earlier, like, what do you say to your kids who just want to, you know, do what their friends are doing? And that's it. That's such an important verse. Yeah. First off, get them new friends. No. Right. But, yeah, we don't want to fit in with the world, right? I. I want my son and my grandkids, and my older kids are older. They're adults now. Two of them got kids of their own. But I want my kids, my grandkids and my great grandkids that are. Are yet to be born. I want them all to stand out so much from the world, which is not our natural inclination. We want to fit in, right? That's what we want to do. We don't want to stand out. Especially like Ezra. He. He's more prone to being shy in new situations, new people. When he opens up, he opens up. You know that. Yeah. Yeah, but I. I don't want him to just feel like I. Well, I gotta do what he's doing just so I fit in. It's like, no, you're gonna start on a path of. Of ultimately never, like, never renewing your mind to the point where, you know that, wait. I am an outcast. I'm. If I'm a child of God, I'm a citizen of heaven, and I. I should be an outcast here. I should not fit in with the world. If I fit in, if Jesus is actually important to me and I'm fitting in with the world, I'm probably not pleased in Jesus. Yep.
