Let's break this down. For every 10 minutes you spend in your Bible each day, you spend 1,430 minutes a day

outside of it. So the question is this. Do you feel equipped to engage with today's culture where you

spend the majority of your time? The truth is, if you're a Christian, you're an outsider. But that's what God has called you to be, and he wants you to live this way joyfully.

But not all outsiders are created equally.

You can discover how God has uniquely called you to engage with today's culture in Keith and Patrick's new book, Joyful Outsiders.

Find more information and start reading today at joyful outsiders.com.

Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jeff Parrott.

Long ago, a prominent thinker wrote this. The essential thing in heaven and in earth is apparently

that there should be long obedience in the same direction. There thereby results and has always

resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. I love that. Long obedience

in the same direction that leads to something that makes life worth living. Now, those words didn't originally come from

a Christian theologian. They were written by the famous critic of religion, the philosopher Friedrich

Nietzsche, in his work, Beyond Good and Evil. Ironically, that quote from Nietzsche might sound

familiar to a lot of us because that phrase,

long obedience in the same direction, was taken up by the Christian pastor and author Eugene Peterson

as the title of his book on discipleship, a long obedience in the same direction. I love how Peterson

uses that phrase from Nietzsche for his work on the journey of faith.

I mean, it cuts into the inclination of our moment, our default factory setting.

We tend to want the way of Jesus to be a relatively short obedience in whatever direction we feel like taking.

But if that's how we think about faith,

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