In many ways, and no matter what culture you are from, this fallen world will define the terms of “cool.” In every country I have spent time in I see Christian teens struggling with how their social sector sets the standard for “cool.” Moreover I see how the desire to be accepted as “cool” often minimizes the overt witness one has the potential to be for Christ. More often than not to be “cool” is to be conformative and non-threatening to the status quo. The more I think about it the more I think being a Christian is the conscious decision NOT to be cool. In essence it is the choice to be un-cool. But we must be careful here. It doesn’t mean being irrelevant, disconnected, isolated or donning old clothes that were in style two decades ago. But it does mean that whenever living for the Lord is in tension with “being cool” the latter must be surrendered.