Hey friend 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 religious professionals, but who work as politicians, furniture makers and

social workers. That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it to one of my best

friends in the entire world Bethany Brown. She's a nurse practitioner and the owner of

a med spa here in Tampa Florida Bethany and I recently

recently talked about the biblical grounds for doing work

that many people see as pure vanity.

We talked about how to display Jesus when you get fired and we talked

about how God can use even the curse to bless us and sanctify us. I think you guys are going to enjoy this conversation with my friend,

Bethany Brown. Bethany Brown, long time listener first-time caller, welcome.

Hello, hello, thank you for having me.

Not just a long-time listener, but also a long-time best friend of my bride and

myself. I don't know if I want to ask this. This is probably going to get edited out.

What's something our listeners should know about Jordan Raynor in the real world?

You've experienced more of Jordan Raynor in the real world than... I know. Well, first of all, I'm pretty, yeah right, no hiking. I wouldn't, I would invite you again. I just probably wouldn't recommend that to be the way you meet people for the first time.

No, I think I remember where we were sitting

when I said, Jordan, you should do a podcast.

Like I was listening to a ton of podcasts.

I don't remember this.

So much content at the time when I was driving to Lakeland every day.

Yeah and I remember saying I think you should do it and I did not want to do it.

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