I Feel Trapped in My Job — What Should I Do?

Ask Pastor John

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We were made to work, and we are happy only if we do work. But what should we do if our job makes us feel trapped, not fulfilled?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the podcast as I mentioned last time Pastor John is in the middle of a very
0:08.3	busy ministry month of January and I would ask for your prayers on his behalf.
0:13.0	He began the year preaching at the Cross Conference in Louisville, a little later at the G3 conference
0:17.3	in Atlanta.
0:18.3	He spoke and now he prepares for the 2019 Bethlehem College and Seminary Pastors Conference
0:23.5	on the theme of Christian Joy.
0:26.0	Looking forward to that, that conference is here in Minneapolis.
0:29.0	It begins on Monday and it ends on Wednesday.
0:32.6	Again, your prayers would be appreciated in one more time with Pastor John out of the
0:37.5	pocket.
0:38.5	We are joined by Tim Keller over the phone from New York City to talk about vocation and
0:43.2	work and his really helpful book, Every Good and Devere, connecting your work to God's
0:48.0	work.
0:49.0	Tim, yesterday we talked about vocational misuse when we think of work only in terms of
0:54.4	self-fulfillment, self-realization and how it slowly crushes a person when they approach
1:00.0	their vocation that way.
1:01.6	This is a huge topic for parents who are desiring to train their kids for this diligent
1:06.0	labor in the future and your book you write this quote, work did not come into creation
1:12.1	after a golden age of leisure.
1:15.1	That's a great point, work did not come into creation after a golden age of leisure.
1:23.6	Student labor is deliberately embedded into creation from the start as you know, I love
1:27.5	this line.
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