Influence, Platform, or Entertainment?

Are you trying to influence people for Jesus, or just trying to build a platform?

In this episode Tyler, Maron, and Milton continue the “Faithful in a Foreign Land” series in Daniel 2, exploring what it means to be influencers in a foreign land who point to Jesus instead of ourselves. We discuss why part of Daniel was written in Aramaic, the common language of Babylon, and why Daniel chose to stay and serve a king who was losing his mind. We wrestle with how to discern when God calls us to stay and when He calls us to go, and how Daniel’s response of curiosity, asking for time, and prayer models a better way to handle feeling threatened. We explore how the same Babylon that destroyed Jerusalem also produced knowledge God called a gift, and why all truth is God’s truth. We unpack the difference between influence, platform, and entertainment, and ask whether we’ve turned God’s message into our own entertainment. Drawing from Psalm 137 and Ezekiel 33, we consider why the church struggles to lament and what we lose when we skip ahead to the celebration. Tyler gets honest about measuring this podcast’s influence by its numbers, and Milton reminds us that our job is obedience while God is responsible for the outcome.

Timestamps:

00:07 Welcome to Between Sundays

18:27 Transition to Sermon Discussion