According to a recent newspaper article, if you are one of the growing numbers of people who live in an urban area and have one or more chickens as pets, then you are a ‘Chickenista.’ Having a chicken(s) as a pet is one of the growing fads of the day and those who do so are said to have ‘panache.’
What exactly is panache? I wasn’t sure so I went to the dictionary for a definition. This is a summary of what I found. Panache is from a French word meaning a ‘plume of feathers flying in the wind.’ It was Cyrano de Bergerac who was said to have ‘panache’ because he wore a plume of feathers in his hat, a daring thing to do in his day. Panache then came to be a term to describe one who had the ‘confidence of style or manner.’ In other words, one who ‘dared to be different and not care what other people think.’
If anyone ought to have ‘panache’, it should be the followers of Christ. Christians are called to be distinguishable from the world by their confident lifestyle and manner of living. Jesus said we are to be ‘in the world, but not of the world.’ And Paul tells us in Romans 12 to, ‘not be conformed to the world, but be transformed.’
Christians ought to live as those who have been transformed and not care what other people may think. Get some panache, become a ‘Christianista!’
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