We're back with guest Tripley, Trip in your new book Rise, you write this, quote,

I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorizing Doomsday prophet with canned food stacked

ceiling high in my basement.

I assure you I only keep enough canned food in the house for the week ahead of me.

But we do need to think about what it means to be faithful to Christ in a culture where

our presence is less and less appreciated.

In quote, yes, we do need to think about this and we all want to be liked and accepted.

But faithfulness to Christ means we won't be liked by the world ultimately.

So how do we live in the world seeking to influence the world positively, but without living

for the approval of the world?

How do you personally find balance in this?

Yeah, that is tricky and you know, something I had to think a lot about even while writing

this book Rise because I'm writing to a generation that's growing up with that really decreasing

appreciation for serious Christians.

And I think Scripture really gives us lots of ways to kind of think about this and navigate

this because it's not like after the Jesus and the apostles and the early church, everybody

always loved Christians and was excited for them to be around and then just recently

people have started not to like them.

Peter writes to young Christians, the first Peter, he says, keep your conduct among the

Gentiles honorable so that when they speak against you as evil doers, they may see your

good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

You know, Peter's really clear, hey, live such good lives among them that they'll see your

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