Hey everybody welcome to the fight hustle and hurry podcast here we talk about the

cultural pervasiveness and problem of hustle and hurry,

and how as followers of Jesus we can resist them

in our daily lives.

My name is Jeff Bethky, an author living in Maui Hawaii,

and I'm joined by John Mark Comer,

a pastor and teacher at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon.

Welcome to season one. What's up guys Jeff and John Mark back again? This is episode two of the Fight Hustle and Hurry podcast,

where we do exactly that.

Equipment encourage you guys to hopefully lean into first

on these first couple episodes,

the problem of Hustle and hurry what we can do

about it and then leaning into again what I just said what we can do about it and so

this episode is going to be on hustle and I'm excited because not only did I

write a book that's called to hell with the hustle but I'm excited because not only did I write a book that's called

to hell with the hustle, but I'm excited because this

is such a mantra of our culture, this hustle mentality.

And like we talked about in episode one, briefly,

that is seen as a virtue, and I would actually argue it's not and so we'll talk

about that why that is etc but John Mark I just want to read this little paragraph from

a New York Times article because there's sometimes where you just can't say it any better, right?

And it's fascinating because this is coming from a New York Times op-ed from a secular non-Christian person, I believe, that is just really really really fascinating and this is this is what it says it

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