Learning to Live as Third-Culture People

Followers of Jesus live in a world that is often at odds with the life Jesus calls us to, and our own place and time is no exception. To be faithful to Jesus means that we will often feel out of place and called to ways of living and being that clash with the ways and rhythms of those around us. We are, in the words of the Apostle Peter, exiles, strangers, sojourners, foreigners, temporary residents in a land not our own, and it is in this situation that we must learn to embrace our core identity as the people of God and learn to live our lives in right relationship to God, to our fellow pilgrims in the church, and to all those around us.