Micah J. Sturm

Give me generic products any day!

They are just as good and cost less.

There are two exceptions: Peter Pan peanut butter and Windex glass cleaner.

They are worth every single penny because I can tell the difference!

The Collins Dictionary says, “generic products do not have a brand name and do not legally belong to a particular company, so any company can manufacture them. Generic also means not having a trademark; without individual character or distinctive characteristics; (lacking in precision): fuzzy, indefinite; see also Thesaurus:vague—not clearly defined; containing uncertainty; lacking clarity.”

A generic gospel is robbing us of the real joy and thrill of “the Name Brand!”

Thanks be to God, when I walked into the Church of the Nazarene in 1984, there was no trace of generic Christianity there!

We were called unto holiness without apology and it was magnetic!

“…whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked” (1 John 2:5-6, ESV).

May the Church refuse to be generic and return to the distinctive qualities that are our trademark: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control—the Spirit of Christ—holiness!

Give me that kind of Christian any day…because there is definitely a difference!