You Are An Influencer | The Writings | Daniel 1

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

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News flash: you're an influencer living as an exile in a foreign land. This might sound weird. How do you influence others with your faith? In today's episode, Tanya kicks off the story of Daniel in Daniel 1. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Daniel 1

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:20.0	Imagine you're a teenager and you're living in a place where your faith is shared by most of the people you know, where it's culturally acceptable, even expected to worship God.
0:23.6	This is what it was like for Daniel and his friends when they were taken
0:27.5	out of their land and into exile by the Babylonians.
0:30.8	Daniel had grown up with other people who worship God. He grew up going to the temple to worship.
0:36.0	But the book of Daniel is about him living in Babylon, a place where his faith wasn't shared,
0:41.0	a place where he believed something completely different from what the culture
0:44.3	believed. But it's not a story about him hunkering down and just trying to survive while he
0:49.2	was there. The Book of Daniel is a story of influence.
0:53.9	What about you?
0:55.2	Are you hunkering down and trying to survive, or are you influencing others by your faith?
1:01.1	Maybe we don't think about this much because we haven't been taken captive and moved to a foreign land against our will.
1:07.0	But we do go to college and we go to work.
1:11.0	We go to play on our sports teams. We go to parties. We go to the store. Let's take a self test. Are you living in exile? Here's a question. How comfortable are you sharing your faith when you go out and about to the store to school to work to a party?
1:33.2	See we don't live in a world where we go to these things,
1:36.4	where we go to school and sports events and business meetings
1:38.9	and talk about our faith, or pray together before they begin.
1:42.6	I mean, if we're lucky, we might have a pocket
1:45.6	where this is okay, where this is acceptable,
1:47.7	but it probably is more of the exception than the norm.
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