What did you just call me?!

I was working at Sunday School yesterday when a kind gentleman who works with us consistently came up to me with a couple of questions of how Kyle and I were running things. As I began to go into details of our mission statement, future vision, and public school outreach plan, this guy started to get HYPE! I mean he was getting fired up! I'm talkin' jumping up and down, pumping his fists, kind of fired up. And of course, his excitement bred my excitement, and I was soon leaving the floor getting jacked up. Amidst all of this excitement though, this fellow stopped dead in his tracks. Thinking something was wrong, I stopped and looked at him inquisitively. He looked me dead in the eye and said, "You know what, Bob? You sir are a contrarian."

I got ticked. How dare you call me a con...wait. "A what?" I asked.

"A contrarian," he replied. "You live your life going against every grain laid out by this world. You live your life for one reason and one reason only, to glorify your Maker, Master, and King."

Commander, huh? That makes me sound more like a soldier or barbarian than anything else. And I love that idea. Just like Erwin McManus describes in The Barbarian Way, I want to live my life "fighting for the heart of my King." There is no greater reason to live. So go ahead, call me all those words I struggle pronouncing, that's fine. I'll worry about that when God asks me to teach 9th grade English or an elective in speech.

Fighting to and through death,

Bobby