If being cool keeps me from doing right things, what should I do?

Redefine what cool is for your life. The word “cool” is so relative that it is almost absurd. I mean in the 70’s being cool meant wearing bell bottoms and dancing like John Travolta. Today being cool may mean wearing the right clothes (you know all the ones your friends wear), having the right hair, the right car, saying the right words, and on and on. Being cool for someone like Kanye West is much different from someone like Billy Graham. Both of these men would define “cool” in different terms. The ultimate question is, “Is your definition of “cool” in line with what the Bible says is a Godly life or is it in line with what the Bible calls sin?” Getting drunk and having sex with your girlfriend may be cool to your friends, but it is not cool with God. God calls that kind of life a sin. So read your Bible, and look at your life and if the “cool” things in your life are things that God calls sin then you must get rid of them. This may mean a sacrifice of some sorts. Perhaps your reputation or popularity will not be the same or your friends will walk away from you and that will be ok. As long as you are redefining cool to match the Bible you will be in step with God and find others who want to be your friends because of your love that you have for God, for the Bible, and for them.