Hi, friends. This is Troy. And this is Ruth.

Welcome to the Foundations podcast. We're excited to do Foundation 7 with you today. Walk wisely

that Christ might be visible. There's so much to talk about today. And we will be looking at this concept of walking, walking with the Lord.

What does that really mean?

So join us.

We're glad you're here.

Let's get started.

Okay, this week we are talking about walking wisely.

The verse that this is attached to is Colossians 4 and verse 5,

walk in wisdom toward outsiders,

making the best use of the time. So there's this interesting component there of outsiders,

but certainly as we develop this whole foundation, that idea of our walk is more than just that.

That's part of the fruit of it,

that the way in which we walk is going to be visible to outsiders.

But there's really some neat things to cover here.

I think the wrapped up in this whole idea and why we wrote a foundation based on walking wisely

is that the word walk really encapsulates the idea of everything

we do every day all the time. Walk is another way of saying when you engage in all that God's

giving you to do in your lifetime. That's walking day and. Yeah. I mean, we don't necessarily walk a lot of

places and, you know, we have the luxury in this day and age to drive multiple cars to

multiple places all the time. But, you know, we were just in Israel two summers ago and

there was a lot of walking. And the ancient world knew everything by walking, knowing where

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