ON BEING A PECULIAR PEOPLE -- Whenever and wherever the true church of Jesus Christ is established, it will create a new society within the larger culture in which it exists.  

         The Gospel, if lived closely enough to be exalted by it, will make of its adherents a sub-culture of peculiar people.  The Lord requires that his people will be recognizably different from those around them.  To be so is not optional.  It is a commandment!  (I Pet 2:9)  He wants us to stand-out, not to blend-in!