Millenial Authenticity

Be not conformed (Grk signifies outward confiormation) to the world, but be ye transformed (outward representing who you really are inwardly, like Christ on the Mt of Transfiguration), through the renewing of your minds. (Rom 12:2.

Authenticity, not being a hypocrite, is NOT revealing your flesh, being "honest" by revealing your inward depravity, outwardly, and acting like the world, dropping bombs in the pulpit.. in the hope that being "real" will win people to Christ... Not at all! Authenticity is simply displaying outwardly who we really are inwardly in the new man. That's authenticity!

Great quote from Wuest on the subject (taken from Wuest's Word Studies, by Kenneth Wuest):

The English word "masquerade" fits this Greek word exactly. When Christian women adorn themselves in the coiffures of the world, copy the world's lavish and gaudy display of jewelry, and don the apparel of the world, they are masquerading in the garments of the world. They are playing the part of another. They are, in the language of the Greeks, hypocrites, acting the part of another on the stage of life. They dress like the world and act like the world, and the world thinks them to be people of the world. Then when they come with the news of the gospel, their message
falls on deaf ears.
Verse four
In verses 1-3, the inspired apostle lays down a two-fold prohibition, first, that the Christian woman must not depend upon outward adornment as she seeks to maintain a Christian testimony, and second, that she must not adorn herself in the habiliments of the world. The manner of wearing the hair must not be highly artificial and in conformity with the latest styles in hair-dress dictated by the fashions of the hour. There must not be a lavish and gaudy display of jewelry. The clothing which she selects must not be conspicuous, immodest, worldly in appearance.
Now Peter comes to the positive part of his subject. He lays down the fundamental principles upon which a Christian woman should act in the matter of adornment. That principle can be stated as follows: The Christian woman should depend upon an adornment that proceeds from within her inner spiritual being and is truly representative of that inner spiritual life. The words, "the hidden man of the heart" refer to the personality of the Christian woman as made beautiful by the ministry of the Holy Spirit in glorifying the Lord Jesus and manifesting Him in and through her life. Peter describes that personality briefly in the case of these wives as a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. The only self-description our Lord ever used of Himself as reported in the Gospels is found in the two words "meek" and "lowly" (Matt. 11:29). The adornment must be spiritual, not physical. Personality is after all far more important than either physical beauty or the adornment which mere clothing affords. A person ought to be bigger than any consideration of outward decoration. One can dress up a fence post. If one finds it necessary to depend upon either physical beauty or clothing in order to make a favorable impression upon others, that fact shows that that person realizes his lack of those personal and spiritual qualities that make a virile Christian character.
The principle to the effect that adornment should proceed from within and be truly representative of the inner being is the principle upon which God operates. It is said of God, "Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment" (Psalm 104:2). But this light comes from the inmost being of God and is an expression of His intrinsic essence. The light that caused our Lord's face and garments to shine with a heavenly radiance in the Transfiguration (Matt. 17:2), came, as the Greek verb indicates, from His inmost being. Adam and Eve before they fell into sin were adorned with an enswathement of glory that was produced from within their inner beings and was truly representative of their inner spiritual lives. When they sinned, the power to thus adorn themselves left them, and finding that their bodies had death and sin and decay in them, they made clothing to cover up their sin and shame. Our Lord after His resurrection covered His glorified body with an enswathement of glory that was produced by the new life principle motivating His resurrection body. What does a glorified body have to do with clothing whose purpose it is to cover a mortal body? Had our Lord worn clothing as He appeared to His disciples (Luke 24), they would not have been frightened. His glory covering caused Him to appear for the moment to the disciples as a spirit. When the saints receive their glorified bodies, that power of producing an outward adornment which comes from within and is truly representative of one's inner nature will return, and the saints will shine with the glory of a new life principle motivating their resurrection bodies. The angel Lucifer before he fell was covered with an enswathement of glory, for he was an angel of light. He produced his outward covering from within. When he fell into sin, he became an angel of darkness, that glory covering departed, and he gave expression to the darkness of sin that was true of his inner being. But Paul tells us that Satan has transformed himself into an angel of light (II Cor. 11:13-15). The Greek verb used in this passage speaks of Satan's action of changing his outward expression by assuming, from the outside, an appearance or expression of light. He masquerades as an angel of light. God works upon the same principle in the animal kingdom. The fur-bearing animals produce their beautiful fur from the inside. The plumage of birds is grown from within.
Just so, on the same principle, a Christian woman's adornment should come from within her inner spiritual nature and be truly representative of that nature. Paul in Romans 12:2 (fuller translation) says to the saints, "Stop assuming an outward expression that does not come from and is not representative of your inner being, an expression patterned after the world, but change your outward expression by giving outward expression of your inner being." The chief adornment of the Christian should be the Lord Jesus, manifested in and through the life of the believer. This is the principle upon which the Christian woman should act in adorning herself.