Is my career in marketing vain?

It's a great question that comes to us frequently.

What we're going to address today is often reflected in emails that we give from Christians

who work not only in marketing but also in the clothing industry and in all facets of

the fashion world as well.

Here's the question is from a young man.

Pastor John Hello, I'm a long-time listener of yours and appreciate the podcast.

I work at Nike and I've often wrestled with my position at the company being that my job

is in marketing.

I sell luxury goods to people who don't need them and often who cannot afford them.

On the other hand, the company gives away millions of dollars as well as shoes and clothing.

I want to be excellent in my working glorified God.

I also want to honor my managers as those in authority over me, but I'm against the

consumerist ways of America, and yet I feel I'm in some ways contributing to them.

How do I balance these tensions and continue to work hard with my hands so that I'm not

a burden to anyone?

Can the products of a humanist company like mine be it all redeemed by the God glorifying

work done by their Christian employees or is a career change needed?

If I worked in marketing, I would ask myself these five questions, at least.

First, am I always telling the truth?

God is a God of truth.

He commanded us to bear witness in the truth, that is not to bear false witness.

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