I'm a loser, you're a loser. Get over it!

Even as Christians, a trap we fall into is of categorizing people as “losers”, “people we can talk to”, and then “cool people”.

Now this really gets my goat, even though I must admit that I find myself in this same stupid trap quite often. [I'm a sloooooooooooooooow learner!] God made us all in His image – we’re ALL unique, wonderful, cool people, because contrary to the evidence found of my siblings, God don't make no mistakes. [Joking, kids!]

But why it really gets my goat when others don’t want to talk to people who apparently are "losers" is because of the following passage from 1 Corinthians 1:26-28

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him.

That's right! WE are the foolish, weak, lowly and despised!!!

Like Mark Driscoll said (Johnston 2007) [yippee, look at my wonderful referencing!!], us Christians are the loser kids who don’t get chosen to play in the neighbourhood games 'cause we pee in our pants when we get excited, continuously have a dripping nose and snot which gets everywhere, and can’t catch a ball to save our lives. It’d be ridiculous for that kid, when they finally do get chosen to play, to boast about their ability or coolness factor!!! So why do we do the same??

We’re all losers. Get over it. Why are we claiming to be better or more worthy than others?!?!