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 retail managers, warehouse workers, and anthropologists.

That's the question we explore every week, and today I'm posing it to Justin Matthews,

an executive at PWC, the global tax audit and consulting firm.

Justin and I recently sat down and had a phenomenal conversation about the dangers

of feeling entitled to a calling and purpose in your work. We talked about how to think

who, not how, in prayers for your work. And Justin shared this beautiful and simple way of thinking about how to sow eternity into the world through your vocation.

Trust me, this is about to become one of your favorite episodes of the Meere Christians podcast.

Do not miss this conversation with my new friend, Justin Matthews.

Justin Matthews, welcome to the Mirr Christians podcast. Hey, Jordan, happy to be here.

Longtime listener, first time caller. I always love to ask. Any favorite episodes of the show?

Jenna Barrett's episode from a couple weeks ago was incredible. I think that might have bumped

its way up. I think maybe Sky would have been before her, but I think Jenna, Jenna did it for me.

That's a good list. Jenna Barrett and Sky Jatatat. I like that. I like that a lot.

Hey, a lot of people know PWC, but a lot of people don't. So let's just do some setting at the table here.

For those who don't know, what is PWC, this firm that you work for?

Yeah, so PWC, some people know it as Pricewaterhouse Cooper. If you're from maybe the generation

before me, it may be Cooper's or Pricewaterhouse. But PWC is a professional services firm with three kind of distinct

lines of service. So one is audit, which is what a lot of people know PWC for your traditional

kind of accounting services. The other is tax. So really anything that has to do with how

companies report on taxes and pay their taxes and ways to really optimize that. And then the last is the bit I'm

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