You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

And as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch

You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel

The arithmetic mean is the most commonly used and readily understood measure of central tendency in a data set. In statistics, the term average refers to any of the measures of central tendency. The arithmetic mean of a set of observed data is defined as being equal to the sum of the numerical values of each and every observation, divided by the total number of observations.

Mean indicates average, common or right in the middle.

John 3:16–17

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. 

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 

It is possible to spend your life pursuing things that don’t give you abundant life. 

What if you experienced Holy in a manger?  

Psalm 99:9

Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy. 

Holy-to be set apart for a specific purpose.

If life without Jesus is mean, life with Jesus is holy.

Luke 1:26–35

In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” 

Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.” 

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. 

Isaiah 9:6

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

1 Peter 1:15–16

But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 

It is possible to be part of a big church and be average.

Consecration—being dedicated to God and His service

Sanctification—being set apart from sin and being made holy

We must never allow anything to interfere with the consecration of our spiritual power. Consecration is our part; sanctification is God’s part. We must make a deliberate determination to be interested only in what God is interested. The way to make that determination, when faced with a perplexing problem, is to ask yourself, “Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or is it something in which the spirit that is diametrically opposed to Jesus is interested?”

--Oswald Chambers