Patrick Miller - Joyful Outsiders: Living for Christ| 451

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Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do you lead your family with faith and conviction in a culture that no longer shares your values? In this conversation, Patrick Miller discusses the message of his new book Joyful Outsiders. Joyful Outsiders —a guide for Christian men learning to follow Jesus in a world that feels disorienting, even hostile. He explains why being an outsider isn’t something to avoid, but a biblical identity to embrace.
Raising kids, discipling others, or navigating your own tension with culture, this episode offers practical wisdom for how to live faithfully, lead intentionally, and stay rooted in joy—even when the world pushes back.

What You’ll Learn:

Why Christians have always been cultural outsiders
The difference between conforming, combating, cloistering—and joyfully engaging
Six biblical archetypes for cultural engagement (e.g. Advisor, Protestor, Artist)
How to parent kids through complex questions about faith, identity, and culture
Why spiritual influence requires wisdom, not one-size-fits-all responses
How calling, personality, and gifts shape your impact in the world

📖 Scripture References
Hebrews 13
1 Peter 1
Ephesians 2, Philippians 2, Galatians 3
Daniel 2

Episode Resources& Links:
Book: Joyful Outsiders: Six Ways to Live Like Jesus in a Disorienting Culture by Patrick Miller and Keith Simon
→ Available from major booksellers or at joyfuloutsiders.com
Free Assessment:
→ Take the “Outsider Archetype” quiz to discover your primary role in cultural engagement- joyfuloutsiders.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, guys.
0:14.4	I'm so excited to have Patrick Miller with us today, and he is going to talk us through
0:19.2	a new book that he and a friend Keith is a friend
0:23.6	you guys have written stuff together before though huh kind of a partner yeah crime yeah Keith and I are
0:27.7	co-authors we pastor at the same church we share in office uh oh so you guys are partners in crime
0:33.2	every day yeah yeah thankfully we live in different houses. I couldn't spend that.
0:38.3	Cool.
0:41.9	Well, Patrick and Keith have written a book called Joyful Outsiders that's coming out at the end of the month.
0:43.4	And I wanted to have Patrick just kind of talk us through.
0:48.2	The theme, Patrick helped me make sure I'm right.
0:50.1	The theme of joyful outsiders is embracing the kind of biblical concept of not being an outcast necessarily, but being different culturally and not being in a norm.
1:03.6	And can you kind of open that up for me, that idea?
1:06.7	Like, what is an outsider?
1:07.9	What is the biblical concept of being an outsider?
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:10.7	You know, we sometimes think about the Bible. It's a book that was written by
1:14.4	insiders for insiders. And when we do that, we forget the very fact that this book was a minority
1:19.6	report on the empire. It was by a backwater nation that no one cared about. And it was written by
1:24.2	people who didn't fit in with their societies. You can go through character by character.
1:28.2	Abraham, the father of the nation of Israel.
1:30.8	He was called from Babylon to go live in Canaan.
1:33.2	And I mean, imagine that he's speaking a different language.
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