Daniel 1:1-21
1. In your own words, what does it mean to bear the identity of an “exile” in public life?
2. What can ordinary faithfulness “for the peace of the city” look like for you?
The Church works best as a force of resistance, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm’s length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message.
Philip Yancey
Holiness is not supposed to be cloaked in the chambers of pious hearts but displayed in the public domains of home, school, culture, and politics.
Vincent Bacote
To the extent that we truly do acknowledge Jesus as Lord, we will engage the Caesar before us with compassion, respect, and wisdom, speaking and acting in ways that contribute to the common Good.
Bruce Ashford