Joshua Becker (Author of Things That Matter)

Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Forget happiness. You’re called to a throne.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Meer Christians podcast. I'm Jordan Rayner. How does the
0:11.2	the Gospel influence the work of mere Christians? Those of us who aren't
0:15.8	pastors or religious professionals but who work as podcasters and contractors and
0:21.4	writers? That's the question we explore every week and today
0:26.2	I'm posing it to Joshua Becker, one of the leading thinkers in the minimalist
0:31.2	movement, author of the wildly popular blog
0:35.0	Becoming Minimalist
0:37.0	and a few best-selling books,
0:38.0	including the more of less and things that matter.
0:42.0	Joshua and I recently sat down to talk. less and things that matter.
0:42.8	Joshua and I recently sat down to talk about why he left his 15-year career
0:48.5	as a pastor to blog full-time about minimalism to Christians and non-Christians alike.
0:56.3	We talked about how our stuff distracts us from the good works God has prepared in advance for us to do and how to combat the work beneath the work, the work
1:08.1	of seeking the applause from others that is killing our souls. I think you guys are going to really enjoy this
1:15.0	conversation with my new friend Joshua Becker. Joshua Becker,
1:22.0	Joshua Becker, welcome to the podcast.
1:25.0	Oh, it is good to be here.
1:27.0	Thank you for the invitation.
1:29.0	Yeah.
1:30.0	By the way, do you go by Josh or Joshua, and is this strategically related to the fact that there's a
1:35.1	California senator named Josh Becker who takes up the first page of Google search
1:38.6	results? Really? They take up my search results? I'm Josh Becker, not Joshua.
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