Peculiar People Day (3 of 5)
Series: Holiday Madness in January
Jeff Strite
Titus 2:11-14
(I opened by reading Titus 2:11-14 from the KJV)
OPEN: Last Sunday (January 10th) was ''Peculiar People Day''. Nobody knows who came up with the idea of making that a special day (somebody thinks it might have been the greeting card companies) but the whole idea of this Peculiar People day is: ''To celebrate those who are eccentric, non-conformist or otherwise unique in some way.''
Someone suggested you might celebrate this day in one of following ways:
- Spend some time at a hair salon and have your hair dyed blue, pink or yellow
- Shop for groceries while listening to dance music thru your earphones and dance the day away
- If you have a pet, dress it up with a wig and go for a walk at a nearby park.
- Cook some strange but edible food for the family.
- Or visit the mall and take pictures of people doing unusual things.
(www.dates.abouttravelingtheworld.com/special-holidays/peculiar-people-day/)
All in all, the idea of a ''Peculiar People Day'' is that the ''peculiar people'' in question are those who are odd or weird in some fashion. In essence... these folks aren't NORMAL!!!
But that's not what the word originally meant
The word ''peculiar'' originally came for the Latin ''peculium'' which means: ''private property.''
Thus when the KJV was originally written in the 1600s... they used that word to describe private property, but not just any old private property. This was a treasured possession that belonged to God.
For the English speaking people of that day, ''peculiar'' didn't mean something that was strange or bizarre. They understood it to be talking about something that was special to God.
For example: in Deuteronomy 14:2 God told Israel: ''thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a PECULIAR PEOPLE unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.'' (KJV)
In other words God was ...
Series: Holiday Madness in January
Jeff Strite
Titus 2:11-14
(I opened by reading Titus 2:11-14 from the KJV)
OPEN: Last Sunday (January 10th) was ''Peculiar People Day''. Nobody knows who came up with the idea of making that a special day (somebody thinks it might have been the greeting card companies) but the whole idea of this Peculiar People day is: ''To celebrate those who are eccentric, non-conformist or otherwise unique in some way.''
Someone suggested you might celebrate this day in one of following ways:
- Spend some time at a hair salon and have your hair dyed blue, pink or yellow
- Shop for groceries while listening to dance music thru your earphones and dance the day away
- If you have a pet, dress it up with a wig and go for a walk at a nearby park.
- Cook some strange but edible food for the family.
- Or visit the mall and take pictures of people doing unusual things.
(www.dates.abouttravelingtheworld.com/special-holidays/peculiar-people-day/)
All in all, the idea of a ''Peculiar People Day'' is that the ''peculiar people'' in question are those who are odd or weird in some fashion. In essence... these folks aren't NORMAL!!!
But that's not what the word originally meant
The word ''peculiar'' originally came for the Latin ''peculium'' which means: ''private property.''
Thus when the KJV was originally written in the 1600s... they used that word to describe private property, but not just any old private property. This was a treasured possession that belonged to God.
For the English speaking people of that day, ''peculiar'' didn't mean something that was strange or bizarre. They understood it to be talking about something that was special to God.
For example: in Deuteronomy 14:2 God told Israel: ''thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a PECULIAR PEOPLE unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.'' (KJV)
In other words God was ...
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