Hey friend, welcome to the Meer 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 do work as biologists, concierges and soldiers?

That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing

it to one of my favorite people, Cayley Cox. She's a brilliant missionary turned

executive Cayley and I recently sat down to talk about

how to stop viewing your coworkers as salvation projects we talked about the number one thing

that pastors can do to free the mere Christians in their pews from feeling like J.V. Christians and how the gospel compels us to market in ways that serve always even while selling. Trust me, you're going to love

this episode with my friend, Kayley Cox.

Kaye Cox, my friend, welcome to the Meer Christians podcast. Thank you so much Jordan.

I'm really excited to be here. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited about this episode for a long time. We've kind of like rescheduled this a bunch of times. I was sick. I don't know what was going on. We're finally doing it. Hey, so I know your backstory, our

listeners obviously don't. I want our listeners to hear the story that brought you to the

work you're doing today and listen, like feel free to take your time time I know this starts pretty early on in your

childhood like when you were five years old right yes absolutely there is probably no

topic tied to the Christian faith I have thought more about than work and

calling and it did start very young for me. I was raised in a Christian home, a

healthy home, a healthy church community, not perfect but certainly healthy.

And I came to love Jesus at a really young age.

I accepted Christ at around five years old and at that same age we had a missionary come speak at the church we were in at the time and I remember them saying if you were willing to go on the mission field God will send you because there is such a need there.

And just that early, and this is probably one of my earliest memories quite frankly,

but... Yeah, it's got to be to be yeah I don't remember anything for

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