Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

The way of Jesus is countercultural in every society, just in different ways.

Truly following Jesus was countercultural in the 1950s.

But we always say the Bible is an equal opportunity offender.

In fact, if you're not offended by it, then you're just not paying attention.

Thank you. you're not offended by it, then you're just not paying attention. Welcome to Summit Life, the Bible teaching ministry of pastor, author, and

apologist, Jidi Greer. I'm your host, Molly Vitovich. You know, we really should see our lives as beacons of hope

in a world of despair. I mean, let's face it, the world we live in is often very dark and hostile

to the message of God. But guess what? He doesn't call us to escape this world. He calls us to

transform it. Today we'll learn that the power to make a difference

is only found in the commitment to actually be different. And one thing that definitely describes

the Old Testament character Daniel is that he was different. So let's put ourselves in his shoes

as we travel back to the ancient near east and are dropped in the middle of Babylon.

Open your Bible to Daniel chapter one and let's rejoin Pastor J.D.

If your life is shaped by the Bible, you're going to be stranger and more offensive to those people

around you than Daniel was in Babylon. And not because you use weird Christian phrases or

listen to Christian music all the time or because you dress like a weirdo. It's going to be because

you are opposite of the world and the three things that are most important to them. I've heard it

described like this. Imagine you're watching a big marching band on a football field. In the band,

everybody in the whole place is looking in one place. All the eyes are trained on the one guy or girl, that conductor, and they are marching in beat with their baton. But say you got your binoculars out, you're in the stands, and you look, and you look out there in the middle of that marching band, and you notice that there's one guy who's not looking at the conductor, he's got his AirPods in, and he's listening to Drake or Lil Wayne on a radio station,

and he's marching to that beat. How's he going to look? Strange. That's not because he doesn't have

rhythm. It's not because he's actually chaotic at all. It's because he's dialed into music

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