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I'm Patrick Miller.

How do we engage with the culture around us?

I know some of you grew up in Christian families where the norm was kind of fleeing away from the culture.

You lived in a Christian subculture of church events and Christian music

and Christian TV shows and Christian everything. Others of you grew up in a very different environment.

Maybe your family didn't look any different from the culture around you at all. You rarely

talked about God. You rarely went to church. and you and your parents, you lived for all the

same things everyone else did, despite calling yourselves Christians. Or maybe you didn't grow up

around church at all, and you're just trying to figure out what it means to follow Jesus in a

world that sometimes seems so opposed to him. I think of a friend of mine who grew up like that.

And when he became a Christian in college, he thought that it meant he needed to flee away

from everything in the world.

And so he literally burned all of his rock and roll albums and all of his non-Christian books.

And he thought that with that bonfire, he'd somehow become more pure. Of course, there is one big

problem to this approach. No one can ever escape the world. No one can ever escape culture.

Even if you try to live in a bubble where everything is labeled with the adjective Christian,

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