Counter-Culture

The 60s and 70s were defined by counter-culture, rebelling against everything that counter says is the right and correct method. They burned down the BofA in IV because they were 'rebelling' against corporations and culture. There was another man who rebelled against culture, and He was killed for it. His name was Jesus, of Nazareth. The way that He loved people was so atypical of the culture in which He lived. People tried to tell Him the way to act and in response He acted in a way that would please his father. It upset people, it did, but He did it anyways, to the point that they killed Him for it.
That is why my goal is to love people counter-culturally. I hate that people's Love, both reception and donation, is defined by culture and anything that is against culture they reject. They way that culture suggests that we Love people is so perverse and ugly and yet we just so willingly give into it. In the words of Voddie Baucham, we have been sold a bill of goods. All of our 'Love' that is within cultural bounds, is not really love at all, but rather a shallow interception of affections we may or may not have for one another. Really, think about it. Culture's perception of love is not real Love at all. So, if we give this, then Loving counter-culturally would mean that Love is real, genuine. If Cultural love is so perverse than there has to be something against which it is measured, and I would postulate that this is biblical Love. I would also postulate that this Love is inside of us, we all have the capacity for Love but the culture has so poisoned us that we have begun to agree with it. It is my commitment to Love people counter-culturally, no matter how much trouble it gets me into, and it does inevitably, just as it has this past week. I urge you to try and do the same.
Good Luck and Good Eats
~Cody