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

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I'm Keith Simon.

As a Christian, do you ever feel like an outsider like you don't quite fit in this world?

Well, if so, you have good company.

And Jesus said, if the world hates you,

remember that it hated me first. If you feel like the world doesn't quite accept your faith,

I think there's a good reason why you feel that way. Before I explain, let me just pray for our time

together. Father, I pray that you would teach us, that you would lead us and guide us into truth.

Father, we offer our lives to you today. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

Let's start with why you feel like an outsider. A very reliable data shows that since 1990,

40 million people stopped attending church.

40 million.

That's a lot of people.

Now, maybe you've read that Gen Z is starting to show more interest in faith and come back to church.

That's true, and we should be really excited about it.

But it's a recent trend, and the numbers returning to church are still relatively small.

Let's pray that God continues to stir the heart of every generation to returning to church are still relatively small. Let's pray that God continues to stir

the heart of every generation to return to him. A second reason you might feel like an outsider is the

shifting language in our culture. I mean, not that long ago, average Americans understood how words like

sin, heaven, hell, God, salvation, well, how they all fit together.

But today the word sinful is as likely to refer to a decadent dessert as much as morally

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