John the avant-garde (John 1:6-8, 19-28)
John the Baptist had no chance at being ordinary—but he takes his outlier status to new heights all on his own.
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My first memory of a church song isn’t a hymn. It’s a Vacation Bible School song about John the Baptist. The only lyrics I remember are “He ate bugs for lunch! / Yuck, yuck, yuck!” The protein content of locusts aside, John is not the person you bring home for the holidays to show the neighborhood gossips that you have respectable friends.
