Pray the Word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

To guide our interactions today and every day with people who don't know Jesus.

Those are outsiders, those who are outside the faith. So just think about the people in your

sphere of influence. Some that you know, maybe closely, family members, close friends or co-workers

who spend a lot of time with their neighbors. And then just think about people you'll interact with

today that you don't even know, maybe total strangers who may be outside the faith.

So the Bible is calling us here in Colossians 4.5 to walk and wisdom toward them,

making the best use of the time. What does that mean? Well, there's a lot that it means we don't

have time to dive into. But at the very least, doesn't this mean that we want to make the most of

every interaction with people who are outside the faith to point them to Jesus?

That doesn't mean we necessarily share the gospel with them, although I would encourage us

to weave gospel threads into the fabric of our everyday conversations. And Radical just released

a resource along those lines. If you just search gospel threads, it's my attempt to help you maximize

conversation just everyday conversations with threads of the gospel in a way that puts Colossians 4.5

into practice helps you to make the best use of the time, but also not just in weaving threads of

the gospel into the fabric of our everyday conversations. But to show the character of Christ

and our everyday interactions, to make the most of time with people who are outside the faith,

to show them the life and the love of Jesus in our interactions with them,

which leads to our words specifically in verse 6, let your speech always be gracious.

Oh, just think about that phrase. For you to speak all day long with grace,

that people would walk away from any interaction with you, having heard words from you,

or even seen things you post on social media and think, well, that was gracious. Let your speech

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