All right, guys.

I'm so excited to have Patrick Miller with us today, and he is going to talk us through

a new book that he and a friend Keith is a friend

you guys have written stuff together before though huh kind of a partner yeah crime yeah Keith and I are

co-authors we pastor at the same church we share in office uh oh so you guys are partners in crime

every day yeah yeah thankfully we live in different houses. I couldn't spend that.

Cool.

Well, Patrick and Keith have written a book called Joyful Outsiders that's coming out at the end of the month.

And I wanted to have Patrick just kind of talk us through.

The theme, Patrick helped me make sure I'm right.

The theme of joyful outsiders is embracing the kind of biblical concept of not being an outcast necessarily, but being different culturally and not being in a norm.

And can you kind of open that up for me, that idea?

Like, what is an outsider?

What is the biblical concept of being an outsider?

Yeah.

You know, we sometimes think about the Bible. It's a book that was written by

insiders for insiders. And when we do that, we forget the very fact that this book was a minority

report on the empire. It was by a backwater nation that no one cared about. And it was written by

people who didn't fit in with their societies. You can go through character by character.

Abraham, the father of the nation of Israel.

He was called from Babylon to go live in Canaan.

And I mean, imagine that he's speaking a different language.

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