Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmeth. It's no surprise to you that it's kind of my job to

share the gospel. I mean here at 10 minute Bible Talks if I recorded a podcast

over a passage of the Bible and didn't point toward Jesus, I might have missed the

point of the passage. It's easy to do that here because it's what you're looking

for and it's common ground between us. But there are other pockets of my life where that isn't what

people expect from me. For instance, in my graduate classes at Missou, that isn't a

place where people expect me to always point out how things we're discussing and writing about reflect the beauty of God's

creation or the mercy of God. If I did, I think they would roll their eyes at first and

then cancel me if I kept going.

And even with my kids, even if there's always an awareness that their struggles are opportunities for grace and their blessings are gifts from God,

I don't actually say those words all the time. They would also roll their eyes and I

definitely don't want to turn them off of faith by hearing me say one thing and

then act like another and I definitely have moments where I don't look like someone who

believes the gospel just let me tell you. I can imagine you have these kinds of

situations as well. Friend groups, coworkers, book clubs, teammates, classmates, you have places where you do more showing

up than speaking up.

So the question for today, can we actually spread the good news about Jesus without saying a word?

In Romans 12, Paul talks about the importance of how we show up as believers.

We've been given a new life, life in the spirit. How can we practice living that out

in real time? How can we show up in the world authentically? How can we be more wensome than off-putting?

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