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How are we living in our culture?

In the podcast from July 13, 2006, “What Do You Live For? (Part 1)”, Greg Laurie closes with this:

The first-century Christians did not out-argue the pagans, they out-lived them. And it’s worth noting that Christianity of the first century made no attempts to conquer paganism, and dead Judaism, by reacting blow-by-blow. Instead, the early believers out-thought, out-prayed, and out-lived the non-believers. Their weapons were positive, not negative.

They did not conduct protests or organize boycotts. They did not put on campaigns to try to unseat the Roman emperors. But instead they out-prayed, they out-preached, and they proclaimed the message of Christ, and to a large degree won a good portion of their culture over. Because they, like Paul, could say, “To live is Christ.”

And I suggest to you if we would say the same thing, we could impact our culture today as well, in a much more effective way. To live is Christ.