Is Work Just a Paycheck? (with Helen Mitchell)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What’s is God’s design for our work? Is it more than simply a paycheck? What does it mean to work unto the Lord? What are the lies about work that we’ve believed and how can we exchange them for the truth of Scripture about work? We’ll answer these questions and more with our guest Helen Mitchell, author of The Work Exchange.Helen Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Crowell School of Business at Biola University. She also directs the Talbot Center for Faith, ...

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0:00.0	What is God's design for our work?
0:04.0	Is it more than just a paycheck?
0:06.0	What does it mean to work unto the Lord?
0:08.0	What are some of the lies about work that we've believed
0:11.0	and how can we exchange them for the truth of scripture about work?
0:13.7	We'll answer these questions in many more with our guest, Helen Mitchell, a team leader for a brand new curriculum
0:20.4	called the Work Exchange.
0:22.3	Okay Helen, before we started you told me you've been working at the idea of connecting faith and work for two decades.
0:29.0	Yep.
0:30.0	Why are you so passionate about this?
0:32.0	What's your story that has made you commit to this,
0:35.0	not only this curriculum, but your life?
0:38.8	I'm passionate about it because it is God's heart. It is God's purpose for Christians in the earth and we have
0:48.6	missed it in some ways, in some ways big, some ways small and I like to borrow from what Scott says
0:56.3	where did you learn such bad theology I hope it wasn't here and why I'm passionate about it is I started my career early in
1:07.2	business, did well, and after the Lord took me out of the marketplace
1:12.2	November 20th, 2003, he started to seed my heart
1:16.2	in my mind about faith at work.
1:18.3	And at that time, there was no books, blogs, conferences, podcasts, things like this, curriculum.
1:25.2	There was very, very little on the market.
1:27.1	There were still a few front-runners.
1:29.2	But in that time, God began to give me his heart for what is and what could be and how Christians have a
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