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Faith, culture, and everyday life - explored through honest conversation and a Biblical lens.
We Who Endure is a Christian podcast where we dive into Scripture, culture, and real-world topics - from AI and entertainment to work and daily life - asking honest questions, sharing ideas, and exploring what it means to follow Christ in today’s world.
Let your light so shine before men that
they may see your good works and glorify
your Father in Heaven.
Matthew 5 verse 16.
What was like the worst job you had? Like
the most basic, not career related, entry
level? Do you have anything like that?
I was a locker room
attendant at a athletic club.
And so mainly we cleaned the club but we
also had to wash the towels.
Oh man.
So and then you know you're walking in
the locker room so there was obviously a
boy and a girl that were the two
positions and so I'd have
to walk in the men's room.
And you know some reason old guys like to
stand around naked talking and then hand
you their towels right
after you know using it.
And then just you know stuff like
cleaning out drains and you know things
clogged in the showers
and cleaning all that.
So very janitorial.
Yeah in a sense yeah and so it was just
stuff with body hair
and things just gross.
Yeah no thanks.
Hot tubs were the worst.
Man steam rooms because
they sit in there naked.
How about you?
The worst job?
Yeah or something like that.
You were allowed to change the adjective
but that's kind of what I'm...
Yeah it wasn't the worst job it was just
had some gross aspects to it.
I mean I hated my job when I worked in a
gym doing personal training
sales and stuff like that.
But didn't you like the physical training
part or just hated the sales part?
Oh I absolutely hated the sales part.
I just didn't even... I don't want to say
I didn't do... it's just what they did
was so like unethical and what they would
want you to do that it was
just like I couldn't even...
I would do it the way that was right and
would do everything by the book as far as
like what is correct but like what they
wanted you to do I was just like it was
just so uncomfortable.
I would say that was
definitely my worst job.
You're making me reconsider my answer
because my photography job there was a
sales aspect and like...
And it was just a little
self contradictory too.
Pizza Hut would have been my worst one.
I worked there very briefly until I was
robbed so fun fact I was robbed
delivering pizza once.
And then the cops made me go back to
where it happened to walk them through
this and I was like I don't want a beer.
I quit shortly after that and my manager
or the... it's not my manager but I guess
like the general manager I
guess he was like he was...
Not a word I'm gonna say on a Christian
podcast I'll put it that way and also
like don't eat a Pizza Hut.
It's gross.
I think it's just
gross. It's gross anyway.
Just wait till you see behind the scenes.
I also had a weird job very briefly when
I when I started working for myself.
I don't even know. I don't
even know if you know this.
I did samples like at the grocery store.
Like carpet samples.
No like food samples.
I did it. I only did
it for like a few weeks.
And you know how they baited me.
They advertised that it was doing alcohol
samples so I thought you know I was gonna
let people try a little whiskey or
something and it was
gonna be like kind of fun.
You know because I enjoy whiskey you know
and a good beer you know
I have something I enjoy.
But they kind of baited and switched me
and it was just doing like these food
things so sometimes I had to
like toast it or microwave it.
I only did it a couple of times and I was
like forget this because I was just doing
it for a little extra money while I built
my freelance business up.
But anyway.
Today we're gonna be talking about
integrating faith in the workplace.
I did a bad job at doing that at all of
those jobs I think I would probably say.
I think I kind of did a good job because
I wasn't bad at the job.
I did good. I did good
at it but I did it my way.
What I thought was right
in the eyes of the Lord.
I don't think I was really getting people
to the Lord there as
far as you know preaching.
I was saying preaching but you know but I
was trying to let my light shine.
Yeah. And what I was doing.
And sometimes that's
all you can do. Yes it is.
So we just thought it'd be fun to kind of
discuss some ideas because maybe it'll
inspire you and even if you don't take
any of the ideas we have maybe it'll
spark a different idea.
So sometimes it's just nice to get a
fresh perspective on things.
Is something wrong? No I just it was I
heard something it was
weird my ear first I can't.
Yeah the way I thought it cut out. So I
just want to go check the audio real
quick because I thought
something bad happened.
Everything's OK.
You want to start us off? Sure. I think
faith in the workplace where you can do
it to where you're not so out out.
Outspoken with it in a sense of like so
to integrate your faith in the workplace
through obviously integrity and
excellence and service
rather than being preachy.
So that whole mentality of like lead by
example by putting yourself in situations
or taking yourself out of situations that
would compromise your faith and compromise your thing.
So obviously you could find people that
are like minded you know because
sometimes you could be in a workplace
where it's fully secular and
you might be the only believer.
But you also don't want to basically be
the preachy one that's always you know
bringing up like whatever you know like
talking about it's more so like lead by
example lead by doing to where people see
that you're being being.
The light being the you know being how
you're supposed to be.
You don't cast your pearls before swine
like if they're not open to receiving it
and you're just forcing it they're going
to become resistant to that.
Right. Like it was almost like like this
is in the workplace but when I was in
college especially being in the art
department there was a very secular kind
of wing of it all like obviously you had
you also had a lot of people that did you
know the more kind of earthy witchcraff.
Yeah I work in advertising so it's very
much the same thing.
And so my experience was by living
through example whether it be the subject
matter or the things I did would bring
conversations up with people about like
you know explaining the reason behind
certain works or behind certain things
rather than going like oh I'm just going
to illustrate a scripture and put this
and make it and be
standoffish in that sense.
And in a sense be a part of a group and
part of like a group of people that
wouldn't and then through those
interactions eventually get to points in
time where you can share the word where
you can be open about your faith and talk
about things to where like I even had on
one of my pieces the guy that was running
the photography lab.
He had like a almost like kind of like a
Jesus look to where if I put like a cloth
over him I was able to photograph him to
kind of do something but he was very
scorned by the church at a young age and
it was healing for him to like pose for
that but also the conversations we had
and the experiences I had to where he
didn't experience but he could kind of
see and kind of get healing from that and
also kind of be open to that.
That where you wouldn't have if you just
either were totally shut off or in your
face about Christ or God all the time.
Yeah because I think a lot of people have
turned away from the church because they
felt scorned by a Christian.
You know when their fellow members of the
congregation or even the church or pastor
itself you know whether it comes from
judgment or whatever and I
think that's a huge problem.
I think the whole being judgy thing is a
lot of big turn off for non-believers and
things like that because you know not to
say you are but like because obviously
you want to humble yourself before the
Lord and humble yourself in general but
people sometimes see and go like well I
was just really judged.
Really hard by someone so they hear
you're a Christian or they hear whatever
and they're like I'm not going to tell
you about my weekend.
I'm going to tell you because you're just
going to judge me. You're just going to
like they don't want to be in a place of
judgment so like to kind of to be that
example but then be in the understanding
that you're not partaking
in those type of things.
Yeah where else you're going to find
people to win over. Right. You know it's
not theoretically I mean sure it's going
to be in churches but.
Well I mean think about this way like so
God wants us to go out into the world.
Right. It'd be really easy to be in a
Christian office with other Christians
and have this group of friends is all
Christian and just kind of feel warm and
cuddly inside and just hold each other
accountable or you can get in the thick
of it of people that aren't believers and
you know especially in the workplace is
the best place and you can
kind of do it that way in your.
You're being in the thick of it rather
than being in the comfort of your own
kind of bubble. Yeah. And to your point
I'm going to bring this up now doing
simple things like wearing a crucifix or
maybe for crucifixes or a shirt or
wearing or shirts like
little things like that.
Now that's a passive way of showing your
faith and that has the ability to open
the door for a conversation especially if
you are getting comfortable with your
coworkers and having good conversations
and all of a sudden they see like oh hey
what's what's your shirt.
Oh it's the it's the Hebrew for indoor.
That's what Dustin's wearing for indoor
right here. So it's because the camera
switching and also this
shirt is on our fourth wall shop.
Plug plug. Sorry. But I mean to what
you're saying with the guy with the sheet
over his head you know like in a
situation like that it opens the door for
the conversation and maybe it's like oh I
I didn't know you're a
Christian like oh yeah.
Or he was like oh I'm just kind of squint
by the church and we're like that opens
the door for a conversation. Right. Yeah.
And it also helps with you know how
you're presenting yourself and how you're
behaving at work and
how you carry yourself.
You know if if you're at a workplace
where there's lots of unethical things
happening or things that people just
aren't doing things right or people are
kind of selfish or whatever it is a lot
of that stuff is at the workplace.
If they know you're not that type of
person they know that they feel like they
can trust you and they also see that it's
like oh well clearly they have some kind
of faith and something right because
you're always wearing your crosses or you
always have some type of Jesus thing or I
always see that you you know you don't
partake in certain things.
And they'll notice that and to think to
themselves like well what's different
about you and what's different is that
you have the Lord right. And that's one
of the reasons why we're supposed to be
the salt in the light of the earth which
we've talked about on
this podcast a million times.
But even. Yeah. But even if you don't
have those things like even if you're not
wearing like openly like wearing a cross
or wearing like you know obviously out of
where that has like scriptures or things
like that like obviously I can't wear a
shirt that has like faith
based things in my workplace.
Being in a school but public school
public school. Yeah. So but going along
with like the you know through through
works through example leading by example
by showing outwardly like
well this guy's got it together.
What's what's the secret. What's like
he's not letting this get down. He's he's
not as impatient with the kids. He's you
know he's acting this way or it's the
idea of like walk the walk and not
necessarily talk the talk because he's not like.
If you're about to leave the talk because
then you're you know because actions
speak louder than words sometimes so like
your fruits you will know them so be.
Instead of being like hourly you know
preachy and just being like well I
believe this and then like if you just
kind of live your life and be like and
and you even talk about some whether it
be finances whether it be whatever like
I've used examples with kids or I've
taught things to them that you could find
in the Bible but you kind of take.
You don't take God out of
it, but you don't say like,
"Well, Jesus," but you say,
"When someone's treating you this way,
"how should you be treating them back?"
And just life lessons
and things like that.
So you're being that light,
you're being leading by example,
leading like how your life is,
because people see like,
"Oh, well, you're married,
"you have kids, you seem
to not let things get to you
"as much," and you kind of
let it kind of roll over,
and you're just like, "Well, yeah,
because God kind of gives
"me that patience
because everything else."
How did Jesus teach?
With parables.
Right.
There's a reason for that.
It's a universally easy
to understand, digest.
If you tell this little
story with a little moral,
that's how things click.
So I mean, there's
nothing wrong with that.
You make it relatable, you use examples
that aren't necessarily
in the Bible, but very far.
They're definitely true.
Right.
I have a biblical truth, I guess,
because of the foundation of morality.
Well, because it's like, you know,
when I had my show with the art thing,
is I wanted to, I visually
showed the 10 commandments
without saying it was
the 10 commandments.
Like each piece was labeled by a number.
So like eventually looking
at it, you could be like,
"Oh, this is the 10 commandments,"
but I wanted to visually
show and portray these things
without it being like,
"This is what the Bible says."
And so like people that would look at it,
form their own
questions and kind of be like,
"Okay, yeah, well, this is bad.
Okay, yeah, well, this is good."
And then it was like,
"Okay, well, look at,"
and then they put it all together.
They're like, "Oh, this
is the 10 commandments."
So it's just kind of
like a way of showing
without in your face type of situation.
Yeah.
I mean, like we said, you shouldn't
always try to shove it
down people's throats.
Yeah, be transparent.
Don't like pretend like
you're not a Christian
or not do whatever, but
like also don't throw it
in their face either.
It's kind of like you
got to read the room.
I already said that don't cast your
pearls before swine,
but like people need
to be receptive to it.
So by doing these things,
you might be making them receptive to it
by being the light first.
Well, and also by being transparent,
it shows that just
because you're a Christian,
it doesn't mean that
you live a perfect life.
So obviously if you
went like 10 years in a job
and they're like, "Oh, I
didn't know you were a Christian."
Well, then you're
probably doing something wrong,
but to where you're that
ashamed of who you're following
that maybe you should probably maybe
figure something out,
but like they should know.
So you shouldn't be like
leading a separate life
than you do at home.
You shouldn't go to work and be like,
oh yeah, with my buddies and like,
I'm gonna swear and I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna do all this thing,
but then I'm gonna go home
and I'm gonna read my Bible
and have the separate life.
Like you should still live that same life
and be transparent in that sense
that they can see that you mess up,
you do things, you
slip up, you do whatever,
but then be like, oh, okay,
well, I know he's a Christian
and I know he did this,
but look how he's dealing
with it based on because of--
Yeah, because you shouldn't,
you shouldn't look like the world, right?
That's the other flip
side to this, right?
Like you're supposed to do everything,
when you're talking to people,
it's supposed to be
with like grace and love
and respect for everybody.
So it's just
important that even if people
are trying to have that conversation
that maybe be almost
argumentative with you,
if they do know that
like, oh, you're a Christian,
so then, well, what about this or
whatever that you're doing,
your response is gonna
be in love and respect.
They expect a certain response.
They are gonna expect that,
but also God expects
you to respond in love
because even you're not
there to win an argument,
even if they're
trying to get an argument,
the point of that is not an argument,
like, oh, I'm just gonna win it
because I know I'm gonna say this,
but if you're gonna end up,
you know it's gonna
end up making them mad,
that's not the point of it.
It's like, you need to do it in love
so that the way they can see
the light and see the love,
and that will have a bigger impact
than just winning some kind of argument
with somebody at work or--
And if you're getting the sense
that they're not asking
you things in good faith
and are just trying to argue,
I mean, guess what, it's okay to say it.
You know, like, hey, like,
are you sincerely asking me
in good faith or are you
just trying to argue with me?
It was like, if you have questions,
I'm happy to explain whatever I
understand as I know it,
if you're genuinely curious,
but if you wanna hear more about it,
gladly talk to you about, like,
you know, I'll just ask
you to respect my faith.
It's really simple as that,
and you might be surprised how receptive
most people will be.
I mean, I stepped out myself
with this podcast at school,
like, when we had a meeting, like, when
they're talking about,
like, what are some good things?
And I'm like, well,
I'm doing this podcast
and thinking, like, I don't know how well
this is gonna be received,
but some people I
didn't expect were like,
hey, can I get a card or
can you show me the link?
I'd like to listen, and I'm like, oh,
and that's kind of open doors to be like,
okay, here's some people I can talk to,
and here's some people to where,
because it is kind of hard,
because, you know, with public schools
and things like that,
it has kind of a,
sometimes a certain inclination
of like thoughts and
views and things like that,
but it was nice to
kind of have that outlet
to where you could
just, you know, kind of,
you know, yell across the
quad, like, on Good Friday
and be like, it's finished, you know?
And they're like, yeah,
just like my sticker, you know?
Or something like that,
and so it was just kind of--
It's nice to find, you know,
what, that you have that in common,
and it goes a long way, because I mean,
I'm self-employed, and, you know,
my industries are very similar.
There's a lot of very
secular type people,
so when you do find that client,
like who does believe in Jesus,
like sometimes we'll have our call,
and then we'll talk about
God or church or whatever,
and like you have that little,
get a little bonus
fellowship time, right?
You know, on top of your business,
which I think is neat,
and you know, this
podcast is an example too,
it's like I'm trying to expand
not only my voice acting career,
but my producer type work
as something to serve God.
Here's a little, there's a
piece of it there, you know?
And there's, this is
actually an extension
of other things too I'm working on,
and got something to
share in a few weeks,
which I'm really excited about.
So things like that.
I know that was really ambiguous.
That was, but now I'm looking forward
to a few weeks from now.
Yeah, I think it's a few weeks now,
we're recording this in advance,
so I'm trying to do the math that I had,
something like that.
June-ish.
Okay.
Exciting work, exciting.
Exciting, exciting.
Anyone else got, I've
got a couple more things.
I got three, two or three things.
I got about one more,
but I can also add on to
things as maybe I think of, but.
Okay, this is for a
particular type of work,
if you, something to consider,
if you have like a office,
so if you're not like
out in cubicles or stuff,
and I guess you can do it in cubicles,
but especially if you have an office
and people come in and out,
or why not just have
some worship music on?
Why not?
Yeah, I mean, I think it
depends on the work itself.
If it's.
As long, I think as long as it doesn't,
you're not violating
company policies with it,
if it's not in the policy, like,
hey, you're not allowed to listen to.
The whole office, basically,
I said I could listen to my music,
but it's a reasonable volume.
That's all I mean, like just,
gently in the background,
I'm not saying don't
worship the Lord at work,
but sitting there.
Laids in the back, cubicle going.
Hey, yeah!
Laids at work today.
Don't distract your coworkers,
but that's another
opportunity to potentially
open the door for conversation,
and maybe they're like,
oh, this song sounds nice,
like what is it?
Because it doesn't even
have to be a worship song,
it could just be Christian songs.
Yeah, right.
Or it could just be a
Christian band making music,
and it doesn't always have to be worship.
That's true, too.
I mean, these are all good options
that potentially open the door,
and also can help keep you grounded.
Yeah.
Sometimes you need a
good little reminder.
I love the trend right now,
because all these trends are stupid.
Which trend?
Because there's a few of them.
But the best trend right now,
maybe it's over now that
it's three weeks in the future,
everyone has a little
Jesus, the little pocket Jesus.
I'm gonna be honest, that
trend's been around for a while.
What?
Yeah, you're just behind three years
in your algorithm, I think.
Well, I'm just now seeing it everywhere.
I'm seeing little
reels, and like, oh yeah,
I have Jesus with me all the time,
and then I zoom in,
there's a little Jesus.
I've gone to the bathroom
like a year ago at work,
and there's a little Jesus at the urinal.
It was just a few months
ago, I went to the bank,
and I was shocked there was a
Jesus at the teller station.
I couldn't believe a big
company like Chase would have...
Well, somebody that was probably there
just left it there, and
then it just didn't...
No, it was his tellers.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, I went to go get some tacos.
It was at the taco shop.
Couldn't believe it, I was, I don't know,
just made me happy.
Are you served by Jesus?
I was like, what?
Gosh, no, I was not.
All right, I have one.
You have one more?
One.
You're punny.
He hates this.
(laughing)
Yes.
Do you have another one?
I think you should go, and then I'll...
I just have a bunch of
verses that people can reference.
I've got one too, so I
can go too if you want.
My last idea,
if your work will allow
it, if you can, whatever,
start a Bible study or a Bible club.
Doesn't have to be on campus.
It could just be with anyone interested,
even if you bring it up to your coworkers
and do it after work or during lunch.
Why not?
It's a possibility.
You never know.
And maybe someone would just be curious,
just like, let's see what these
Christians are doing,
and that could be all it
takes to change their life.
That's definitely a possibility.
Although it would probably be
hard to do at certain works,
but yeah, obviously that
doesn't apply to everyone,
and it would be very, very difficult,
especially like a public
goal would be difficult.
One of the ones, just kind
of an idea of something to do,
and this is more a
behind the scenes thing,
and then eventually people talk about it,
you bring other people on board.
Things like that is,
obviously pray for your coworkers,
but also not
necessarily do the Jericho thing
where the walls come down,
but you walk around, I
would walk around campus,
or go to other classrooms
and pray for that class.
Pray for everyone that
walks through this hallway today
who may be blessed, and
just pray over your workplace.
Ask by your boss's
office and pray for them
that they have a great day.
If certain coworkers don't know God,
just be like, hey, just ask that,
maybe put them in a
situation where they know you,
or they're quite
enough to hear your voice,
or just kind of go
around and you just do that,
and eventually you
start seeing those changes.
So you're lifting up your
school, lifting up your office,
lifting up wherever you're working,
you just kind of go
around from even this,
when you get in the morning
and you're in a parking lot,
you know all the cars in
the parking lot are employees
because maybe you're working retail
and they haven't shown up yet,
like praying over those
cars as they drive home,
and things like that.
So just kind of being
actively praying for
and just kind of going around and then
lifting everyone up,
believers and
non-believers and everything else.
And it reminds me of a reel that,
I don't know if you sent it
to me or if I just found it,
but anyway, we have an
episode that we never aired
and I'm not sure we'll be able to,
and I shared it on there.
It was, what's his name?
Michael Phillips, the 24,
Michael Phillips.
One, two, three, four,
yeah, the three first names.
Wait, did I say it wrong?
What'd you say his name?
It's Phillip Anthony Mitchell?
No, I don't know what his name is.
Well, whatever, it's three first names.
Anyway, that guy, I'm sure.
Point 19 church.
Yes, he had a really
good part of his sermon
and it was on a reel.
He has them turn off
the lights and he's like,
this is how the world sees you.
And like, don't forget,
it was just him and he was,
it was on a spotlight.
He was literally just being this light
within the darkness.
And if you can shift
your mentality that way
and also spiritually, remember,
that's how you should be striving to be
and that's how you should be appearing.
I mean, you're very
literally being the light, right?
And even if you're someone
like me who works from home,
you can do that on Zoom,
do that in your little
virtual meeting on your phone call.
Like put on a spotlight.
(laughing)
You know, it's funny
because I have to close everything
and it's really dark,
so I actually do have a spotlight on me.
So in my case, it is literal.
You know, I think one other aspect
that we haven't touched on yet
that can be really
important for people is
sometimes you might be in a situation
when people come to you
because they're going through something
because you might have
someone at work who trusts you
or maybe you're over them,
so you're their supervisor
or manager or whatever it is.
And they're going through something
terrible in their life.
Sometimes it's okay to just say,
hey, do you want, do you
need a prayer or anything?
Do you want me?
And there's nothing
wrong with that, you know,
hey, or you know, because
maybe you're just asking,
you know, if they say, no,
no, no, I don't believe it,
then it's, you know,
that's fine, that's okay.
You know, you're not pushing on them,
but there's plenty of
times where I've had,
I've asked them and I've
known whether they are,
I wasn't sure whether
they were or they weren't.
And I was like, well,
because I will do that for
you if you need it, you know?
And that could go a
long way for somebody that,
and obviously also be
very empathetic with them,
whatever it is that
they're going through,
don't just turn it into,
oh, well, this is a
great way for me to just,
you know, use the word of God
to like get you out of your low moment,
like use it to be that light,
like use it to show them love
that they may not get otherwise,
to show like this will, you know,
I care for you as a person.
I'm not just, you know,
a Christian and whatever,
like I care for you and your family
or whatever it is that
you're going through,
like show them that love.
And that could go so far for them
with their relationship with
God and that you don't realize.
And at the same time,
you have to do it in that moment.
So many times, you know, where people go,
hey, I'll pray for you
or can I pray for you?
And then that's where you leave it.
And that's that one
that doesn't feel anything
because you could either be like,
oh, they're just saying that to say it.
Maybe they will go home and pray for me,
but like do it in the moment.
I challenge you to just do right there.
So when you go like,
hey, can I pray for you?
Like they might be thinking,
oh, he's just going to say
he's going to pray for me.
But then you go like, all right,
is it okay if I pray for you right now?
And then that just shows that one,
it's that boldness and
two, you hear that words
and you're speaking to their heart
and you're allowing God
to speak to their heart
during that moment.
So like, I, you know, I
challenge that you do it
in that moment and don't just,
because I mean, a lot of times like,
even through like texts with friends
and things like that, like, you know,
or a friend will be like,
hey, can you be praying for me?
And they expect you just
to be like, yeah, sure.
And then that's it.
But they're always
shocked when you're like,
okay, can I, let's do it right now.
And they're like, well, right now.
And like, well, yeah, better,
no better time than right now.
And like, I'll pray for you later too,
but let's pray right now
and right in this moment
while we're here and that shows a lot.
That's also being that light
and being that
example for your workmates.
And if you are to piggyback off of that,
if you are in a situation
where it is a text and like,
okay, I'll pray for you.
It's a Facebook comment.
Like you see the news and praying what,
I've heard that before.
So now what I started doing,
and this is actually reminding me that
last time I posted it,
I didn't do it.
I need to pray.
That's a self reminder.
Before you type it and push send,
pray and then do the prayer for you.
So you don't forget.
Right.
So that's something I personally.
If I ever get any
type of prayer requests,
it's okay, I don't care what I'm doing.
If I have to leave a meeting at work
and go to the bathroom,
I'm gonna go and pray and
like, I'm gonna go do that.
Yeah, even if just a quick little prayer,
then you send it.
Yeah, because I feel
like there's way too much--
You want your yes, be
yes and your no, be no.
I think there's way too
much of that in the world too.
You see it on posts, be like,
oh, I'll make sure I'll
keep you in my prayers.
Throw some prayers.
It's like, okay, does that
mean you're actually praying?
Are you gonna remember?
Because I mean, I'm just
as guilty as anyone else
when it's like, I know other people are
going through things,
but then I'll go
through my morning routine
and I think we all go have like our
routine and our prayer
and sometimes you get stuck in a rut.
But there's things I forget all the time.
Like, oh, I forgot to pray for Johnny
who's dealing with whatever, odd.
I need to remember that next time.
If you do remember
that, immediately pray.
You can just
immediately pray for them, right?
But like we said, if
there's someone who's saying,
yeah, I need a prayer or
somebody asked for prayer,
just do it then and there.
Why are we waiting?
No better time than now, right?
Don't say yes and then forget.
So that's my little life hack
and it's working good for me
because I've definitely been
guilty of, oh, I'm praying.
Yeah, it was so easy just to be like,
yeah, I'll be praying for you.
Because you're just in the
middle of the doom scrolling,
like, oh, okay, yeah, I'll pray for you.
Continue doom scrolling.
Like, no.
Five seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds.
I didn't even go like that.
Because that could make a difference.
That could make a huge difference.
That could make the difference.
So that's what we're called to do.
Anything else before we wrap this up?
I got a couple of scriptures here.
Okay.
Just people to reflect on.
We've talked a lot,
but just to say, okay,
it's all good things,
but here's a couple of
Bible verses to keep you in it.
So first things first, whatever you do,
work at it with all your heart
as you're working for the
Lord, not for human masters.
When you're at work,
remember it's not for your boss,
who maybe you have a
hard time dealing with
or whatever the case is,
the company that maybe
you don't 100% agree with
on everything.
You're doing it for the Lord.
We're called to be the salt
in that light of the earth.
Be wise in the way that
you act towards outsiders.
Right, let your
conversations be always full of grace.
That's Colossians
chapter four, verse five.
Always, first Peter chapter three,
always be prepared to give an answer,
but do this with gentleness and respect.
It's always important to be respectful.
And I know we talked about it before.
Avoid foolish, second
Timothy chapter two,
avoid foolish and ignorant disputes,
knowing that they generate strife.
If you know it's just
gonna cause people to stumble,
or it's gonna be an issue,
and it's not even really worth it.
Somebody's bringing up politics
that are maybe against your Christianity,
because they're like,
"Oh, you're a Christian,
so you must be against blah, blah, blah."
And then it's gonna
turn into this nonsense,
like don't buy into that.
Don't take the bait.
Yeah, don't take the bait.
And do everything in love, right?
And you have these verses written down.
Yeah, I do have these verses.
There's more too, like Corinthians about
doing everything in love.
It's not about winning the argument,
but I'll send them out.
Yeah, and I'll put each verse
in the description of this podcast,
so you can reference,
because those were good little reminders,
and you can maybe
mark them in your Bible,
or maybe you can put them in
your We Who Endure notebook
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This was their favorite verse,
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I don't know if we can--
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If you want to, I was
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There you go.
Mama Zidin's favorite verse.
So she should be having,
she should have this by now, actually.
It should be weeks from now.
This notebook is pretty nice.
It's got little lines,
good amount of pages in here.
Imagine carrying that around
for your meeting notes and stuff,
and we might do some other verses too,
but that's a fun little--
Let's get started.
A fun little verse.
This is James 1, 22,
be doers of the word,
and not hearers only
deceiving your own selves.
That's the King James translation.
King James of James.
King James of James,
yes, King James of James.
King James version.
Square.
The King James translation.
James's eye.
Yes, is--
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