This phrase comes from Perry Noble's advice on "Four things I wish someone would have told me"
I love his passion for Church Unique- he simply blurts out- "You're not normal. If you were God would have left you alone. Quit trying to be who people want you to be. Be who God called you to be."
Another reason I wanted to reference this statement is a great quote I am modifying for for churches that I read with regard to people and speaking. In a new book entitled, Real Leaders Don't Do Powerpoint, Christopher Witt, writes "Don't be different just to be different. Stop, instead, trying to look and sound like everyone else. Be yourself, and if that does not make you different, then something is seriously wrong.