Peer Pressure Continued

In the last installment I listed four ways to help you overcome peer pressure.  I wanted to retouch on this subject because I have had a couple people come up to me asking about it again.

Everybody, at one time or another, has felt the power of peer pressure.  It comes at us when we are faced with a decision that effects what others think about us.  When someone passes you a joint and just when you’re about to say no everyone gets quiet and looks at you.  How about when someone has asked if you have had sex yet?  Or on a smaller scale when you are pressured to lie.  How do we handle these situations?  What kind of feelings are being activated on the inside of us?

Let’s find out!

Faith Explained

The word “faith”, translated from the Greek πιστις (pi’stis), was primarily used in the New Testament with the Greek perfect tense and translates as a noun-verb hybrid; which is not adequately conveyed by the English noun. Pi’stis in the New Testament context is a physical action, based upon a mental belief and sustained with confidence. Belief, in this context is non-synonymous with faith because, belief primarily conveys the mental action, thought of confidence, trust, and/or firm persuasion, not the physical act.[1]

The Faith Advantage

Faith: the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  This is a definition found in Hebrews 11 used many times to describe what faith is.  Read it here.

Faith is the belief in something you can’t see.  Some people call this belief in the impossible.  But all things are possible to them that believe.  So in essence faith can be called something that turns the impossible possible.

Peer Pressure

“Everybody’s doing it.  You don’t want to be the only one left out do you?  Come on, just this once.  You’ll miss out!”

The above lines are only a small percentage of what we hear when trapped in the middle of a decision aided by the weight of peer pressure.