Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
- Romans 12:2
When I was a Boy Scout, a regular chore on campouts was doing the dishes, which included cleaning cast iron skillets. When our adult leaders doled out this task, they always stressed that we were under no circumstances to use soap. Hot water, yes. Foil, yes. A washcloth, yes. But soap, they explained, would eat away at the cast iron and ruin it.
So for nearly 20 years I took that advice as gospel, always keeping the Dawn far away from our cast iron cookware. Until this week, that is. Because this week is when I learned the truth: while there was certainly a time when dish soaps, which were made with lye, would strip away cast iron’s seasoning and damage the pan, that has not been the case for decades. No modern dish soap is going to hurt your cast iron.
I’ll let you fact check me on Google or ChatGPT real quick. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
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Welcome back. Chances are, you may still be suspicious of this new information—truthfully, I am too! That’s because once something becomes conventional wisdom, it’s awfully hard to successfully dispute it. Once our world decides something is true, it takes a lot of courage and conviction to go against the tide.
But for believers in Jesus, there are times where our faith requires us to do so, times when the gospel of Jesus Christ and the wisdom of the world simply do not align. In those moments, you have to choose whether you will passively go with the flow or actively follow the Lord. You have to decide whose disciple you really are.
In a world of conformists, God calls his children instead to be transformed—made not in the image of the world, but in the image of his Son. Don’t settle for the conventional wisdom—embrace the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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