Hey everybody welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the Gospel influence the work of mere Christians, those of us who aren't

pastors or full-time missionaries, but who work as politicians and school bus drivers

and software developers.

That's the question we explore every week on the show and today I'm posing it to my friend

Asharita Chu-Chu. She's the best-selling author of a number of excellent books, including

unwrapping the Names of Jesus. Asharita and I recently sat down to talk about what to do when you're bored with the word of God.

There I said it.

Sometimes I'm bored with the word and I bet you are too.

What are we doing in those situations? We talked about what the various names

for Jesus mean practically day to day for the work that you and I do. And we talked

about how dabbling inside projects can cultivate creative rest that makes us even better at our core

crafts. You guys are going to love this conversation with my friend Ash Asharita Chuu.

Asharita, a long time friend, a few year friend,

a few year friend, finally getting you on the podcast welcome and Jordan

Thanks so much for having me here. I'm so glad we're doing this we were just talking about the rebrand from the call to mastery of me or Christians, you're all in. You dig it.

Yeah, I think so much is already packed into that term for anyone who's read

S. Lewis's book and so I feel like already if I just saw it listed in Apple Podcast I'd be like yes sign me up I want this I couldn't believe that we so we got a trademark on this I was just telling you

and I was like there's no way we're to get a trademark for something so close to me or Christianity.

But hey, so I want to touch on your story real quick.

You grew up as a missionary kid in Romania.

How old were you when you left Romania?

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