How Your Career Could Crush You

Ask Pastor John
Episode: 1306
Guest: Tim Keller

[JordanNelson]

So much of our Christian perspective runs counter to everything around us. Really need God’s help in following him rather than the world’s system/priorities - and my own flesh and selfish ambition! But at the same time we need to be able to engage in and relate to culture well. So much grace needed!

[scottmoore]

I truly wish it were that easy when one's talents, heart, and desires to bless people in greater ways are squandered in less optimal roles. Compounded by the frustration of Gods silence.

[bria]

My life has been changed so dramatically by Keller's teachings over the past few years, grateful for his ministry!

[frontlinethru]

By "culture", we mean worldly values. Anything we do for money, is for survival. Let us not decieve ourselves. Fear, not love, is the only reason to work for money. No one should work for a salary, but even pastors do. They preach and write for money. 😭

[missesraisin]

Doing the right thing as much as humanly possible, working to the glory of GOD. People watch everything I do, but listen to nothing I say. They are drawn to Christ, watching my every move looking for Sin lol ...JESUS ROCKS!!

[ladylauraproductions]

wow this came at the perfect time--getting my first job. Its your typical job but I really needed a reason to actually love it and want to do it other than monetary needs.

[HearGodsWord]

Pastor Tim on the Pastor John podcast. Very good - two of the best out there right now.

[beefling]

He sacred me I thought he was going to say health complications.

[Singita.S]

Some topics no matter how many times you’ve read through the word/bible, you’ll never truely know how to answer them correctly unless you’ve lived through them. Things are easier said than done. People who are in ministry will never understand the lived experience of those who work a 9-5 daily. Therefore you just have to seek God for yourself to get the answers you want and not a man who is only speaking from his life

[AaronArnoldaquapod]

I heard and understood. But my heart I too stubborn to understand how to live this out. And I need God

[aaronfinley]

To listen to this discussion, you’d think nobody actually worked to put food on the table, or had fear of firing or just weren’t any good at their job. Spoken like folks whose only experience was in ministry.

[lilylamble]

Well needed! more videos on this topic please!

[tyclosesloans]

Saved to favorites. Thank you, gentlemen

[karenstone]

Pastor John needs to pay attention to this video, and don't let work crush him. Space and rest is important

[hurriyatjoseph]

You sacred me, yes I always pray for his work for the kingdom.

[WilliamBranhamsermons]

it is different between token life and good life chosen people have no any worry

[TheCreepypro]

may we yearn to do your work on this earth Lord!

[murphyy]

I sorry man, this guy says its a heart issue. The reality of trash jobs. These men are supported by these workers more than likely.

[iwantgoals]

So if you feel stuck and miserable in your job you should stay there? If you need more money to support your family you should be happy with what you have? If you’re employer doesn’t value you and is desperate to trip you up and fire you should stay and wait to get fired?

[kevinowenburress]

" I began by asking him: Why does a biblical view of vocation seem so undeveloped in the lives of so many Christian workers today?"

I would say a lot of it is things that are external to being Christian which are imposing false views that people need to adapt to being not christian and doing things that are against christian values, vocationally and culturally. Like if you look at atheism and what the agenda is based on peoples incorrect beliefs and how they want to impose it, it has a lot to do with what is being imposed that isn't adaptation, as being something you have to do in order to adapt and we know that is not true. I don't think that hope without results is something that is going to work and in the same way it's like a game and people who develop games shouldn't be punishing a player for playing cautiously and people feel like that is the case, and things are structured that way in life against the Gospel as well, when we know that that isn't the case other than being artificial influence. So we need to be working together, the whole church, all of the churches need to, with the word with righteousness, work together against that, against whatever is behind it.

Let me give you an example, just the other day I was watching avideo about genetic algorithms in AI and the guy that was coding it came off as a homosexual and so I naturally disliked it, but also because the randomly generated models that were used in the video, they were to go in one direction a farthest distance and the algorithm was made to prune all of the models that didn't go far enough that way, but in fact it would have been more efficient to instead test them in either direction and turn the models that went further in the "negative" direction to go in the "positive" direction, only in this case being about people, and about Christianity and what is true of adaptation, rather than what is imagined that we know is not the truth. When talking about an evolutionary model in terms of adaptation and learning, and I think that my view on this very well fits into the model of Christ healing people on sunday and pulling cattle out of a ditch.