Jesus the Oddball

Recently one of my high-schoolers described Jesus as an "Oddball" so different from the world.

Here are a few statements that really are strange and revolutionary

• "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!" Jn 2:16
• "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." Jn 2:18
• "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again" Jn 3:3
• "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." Jn 4:4
• "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. Jn 5:23
• "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. Jn 6:35
• "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as^[c] the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." Jn 7:38
  
• "But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger." Jn 8:6
• "Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes." Jn 9:6
• "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. "Jn 10:1

That's as far as we've gotten in our study of John. But a brief read of these statements really brings out one truth. Jesus is an oddball, he was counter-cultural, counter-religious, conter-socioeconomical. My question for us is this:

Are we as followers of Christ oddballs? In what way? How can the we follow Jesus in His radical way of being completely different from this world?