Taking Our Faith Out Into the World

Send us Fan MailWhat does it actually look like to live your faith in everyday life—at work, in hard conversations, in disappointment, and in a world that often feels heavy?In this episode of Speaking of Faith, Bishop DeDe and Adam talk about what it means to carry faith beyond church walls and into ordinary life. The conversation begins with a question many people are quietly asking: Is it okay to feel joy when there is so much suffering in the world? Bishop DeDe reflects on the idea that joy, kindness, generosity, and compassion are not ways of ignoring the world’s pain—they are acts of resilience, resistance, and faith. Living a good, joyful, compassionate life is not selfish; it is part of our Christian witness.A major theme in this episode is that most of the time, we share our faith not through words, but through how we live. How we treat coworkers, how we handle conflict, whether we gossip or show integrity, whether we are kind, honest, prepared, respectful, and compassionate—these things speak louder than any religious language ever could. Faith in the workplace often looks like integrity, consistency, humility, and treating every person with dignity.The conversation also explores how to talk about faith in a way that is life-giving rather than harmful or fear-based. Too often, Christianity has been associated with judgment, fear, or exclusion. Instead, we are called to be self-defined by love, repentance, forgiveness, and resurrection—not by anger, fear, or the need to win arguments. The goal is not to shout louder, but to live differently.Bishop DeDe also reflects on the pattern of the Christian life as a constant movement through death and resurrection. We experience this pattern in conflicts, failures, job loss, broken relationships, disappointment, and grief. There are moments when things fall apart, when we feel lost or in despair, when we feel like we are in the Garden of Gethsemane asking for the cup to pass from us. But those moments are not separate from faith—they are part of the spiritual journey. The promise of resurrection is that despair and failure are never the end of the story.Ultimately, this episode is an invitation to live intentionally and faithfully wherever you are—in your workplace, your family, your friendships, and your community. You may not always be able to preach about faith, but you can always live it. Every act of kindness, integrity, forgiveness, compassion, and humility is a way of taking your faith out into the world.As the episode reminds us, we cannot fix everything, and we cannot carry the whole world. But we can do the next faithful thing in front of us. We can bring love into the spaces we inhabit. We can choose not to dehumanize others. We can rest, pray, begin again, and keep moving forward.And in every season—whether in joy, failure, doubt, grief, or hope—the promise remains the same: You are loved beyond measure. And you are called to be a blessing.AI Disclosure: To support our staff in their limited time,  many of our episode summaries are first generated by AI and then edited by the Communications Director to accurately reflect and preview our podcast episodes.