Living as a Christian in a World That Hates Your Values (Behind Enemy Lines: week 1)

Are you feeling the pressure to compromise your faith? Do you find yourself constantly pushed by culture to stay quiet about Jesus, to go along with what everyone else is doing, or to slowly drift from the values God has called you to live by? You are not alone — and the book of Daniel has something powerful to say to every believer who is trying to live faithfully in a world that seems increasingly hostile to the things of God.

In this message, Pastor Jason Gildehaus kicks off our summer series **"Behind Enemy Lines"** by diving into Daniel Chapter 1. Daniel was a young Jewish teenager — probably 14 or 15 years old — who was ripped from his home and carried 900 miles away to Babylon, one of the most godless, over-the-top, corrupt empires in the ancient world. Sound familiar? Every single day, believers are surrounded by a culture that looks a lot more like Babylon than it does the kingdom of God. And just like Daniel, we face a constant temptation to conform, to give in, and to slowly abandon the values that God calls us to live by.

But here is the good news: Daniel didn't cave. And neither do you have to.