Built Different: Blurred Lines

Built Different: Called to Stand Out! Sermon Notes                      

Blurred Lines
Pastor Brad Myers
August 17, 2025

I am not common… I am chosen… I am not random… I am redeemed… God formed me… God knows me…God calls me to stand out… I am built different!

Series: Built Different – Called to Stand Out!

In our world, God’s moral lines are still written in God’s Word. But culture has knocked some of those signs over—and when we stop seeing them, we stop obeying them.

Today: Blurred Lines

Whether you are offended or challenged will determine where you stand.

We don’t just live in a confused culture — we live in a culture committed to confusion.

• Moral lines blurred; spiritual deception is normalized.

God didn’t build His people to blend in with confusion — He built us to discern, declare, and demonstrate truth. God intentionally designs you to disrupt the world’s systems. Your very life should be a Spirit-powered contradiction to an upside-down, inside-out world.

Society is Confused!

What was once shameful is now celebrated, and what was once honored is now mocked.

1. Gender

Blurred Line: “There is a growing trend of people redefining gender based on personal feelings rather than biological reality.”

• Some see gender as something you choose.
• 40% of Americans believed a person should be able to legally select their gender.
• 60% 18–29 say it’s “morally acceptable” to self-identify gender.

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Creation reveals divine order

Genesis 1:27 (ESV).

• Subjective identity moves us from objective truth into blurred lines of shifting sand.

Genesis 2:21–24

• God formed woman from man and instituted marriage between male and female
• Foundation of family and society.
• Differences are not just biological but purpose-driven.
• Each gender reflects aspects of God’s nature and fulfills roles in His plan.

Today, society’s definition of gender is often fluid, self-determined, and detached from biological sex, shaped more by personal identity and cultural shifts than by fixed creation order.

Why does it matters?

It moves personal identity from being rooted in God’s design to being constructed by individual feelings.

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2. Marriage & Family

Blurred Line: The normalizing of long-term cohabitation (living together) in lieu of marriage.

• Today, 1 in 11 couples live together without marriage.
• 1 in 9 for families
• 18–44 age range, cohabitation is more familiar than marriage itself.
• Shift shows how blurred the lines around commitment have become.

Why does it matter?

It reshapes the marriage covenant into a contract, transitions from holiness to convenience, it replaced permanence to preference.

Marriage was instituted by God as a symbol of Christ and the Church. When culture redefines that, the gospel image gets distorted.

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3. Privacy & Oversharing

Blurred Line: Every boundary between private and public life is collapsing—relationships, faith, even trauma turned into spectacle on social media.

Why does it matter?

Sacred becomes viral. Discernment gets replaced by display. We become “performers of faith” instead of worshippers of God.

Faith endorsement is now more dependent on the audience than  spiritual influence. The Spirit restores genuine worship, not an audience.

Many truths were meant for the altar, not for Facebook. When faith becomes content, the creator gets reduced to a clip.

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Why are lines blurred?

• Moral Shift in Culture

The definition of right and wrong shifts with trends, not truth. Evil is rebranded as “progress” while holiness is mocked as “hate.”

Isaiah prophetically warned us.

Isaiah 5:20 (NIV)

Why are line blurred?

• Church Compromise

The lines between holy and unholy get blurred when the acceptance of man replaces the fear of God.

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The Prophetic Role of the Church

1 Timothy 3:15 (NIV)

• The Church is “the pillar and foundation of the truth.”
• In a lying age, truth-telling is prophetic ministry.
• Pentecostal churches must demonstrate truth in power, love, and conviction.

God adopts what the world overlooks.

1 Corinthians 1:27 (NLT)

The Spirit loves to use what appears weak to showcase Heaven’s power.

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Q) How Do We Stand Out?

God builds His people to see clearly, stand firmly, and speak boldly in a culture that’s morally upside down.

• See Clearly! – Revelation

1 Corinthians 2:14 (NLT)

Sin distorts perception

Ephesians 4:18 (NLT)

Ephesians 4:18 (NLT)

2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT)

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Q) How Do We Stand Out?

2: Stand Firmly! – Resolution

Colossians 1:23 (NLT)

Standing is loyalty to Heaven!

• Acts 4 shows the early Church standing despite threats.
• Filled with boldness when they prayed!

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Q) How Do We Stand Out?

3: Speak Boldy – Proclamation

Jeremiah 20:9 (NLT)

Speaking truth is prophetic obedience, not personal opinion, while silence in a time of moral confusion is agreement with deception.

Boldness is a direct byproduct of the Spirit fullness

Acts 4:31 (NIV)

God confirms His Boldy Spoken Word!

Mark 16:20 (NIV)

Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

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Declaration:

“I will not be swept away by confusion. I will walk in truth. I will speak light in darkness. By the Spirit of God, I will see clearly, stand firmly, and speak boldly. The Word of God will draw the lines of my life, and I will not move them.”