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 pest control workers, dieticians, and jewelers.

That's the question we explore every week, and today I'm posing it to Caitlin Miller.

She's a public school educator in North Carolina, providing literacy interventions for

kindergarten, first, second, and third graders.

Caitlin and I recently sat down and had a terrific conversation about why following Jesus is not just about avoiding sin, but about doing righteousness in your work.

We talked about how to wrestle with both the cosmic significance and insignificance of our work and how to make disciples of all nations in the job you already

have today. I loved this episode. I'm confident you will too. Please enjoy this conversation

with Caitlin Miller. Hey, Caitlin, welcome to the Mure Christians podcast. Hey, Jordan. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. So we met at this event. I was speaking at a few months ago in Lake Tahoe. And I think I've

mentioned this on the show before, but I typically don't travel

west of Texas for speaking gigs. And people are like, why? Is this like political? It's nothing

political. Totally practical. Because I like you, I've got young kids. And I'm based on the East

Coast and just traveling west of Texas is really hard. It takes a really long time. But man, I was glad I said

yes to Lake Tahoe because that place was unbelievable. It was unbelievable. Had you been to Lake Tahoe before?

No, never. And to be honest, I don't even attend that conference every single year. But when I saw

it was in Lake Tahoe, I wanted to go. And just the vastness of God's beauty and creation is so awesome to see out there.

I grew up going on a lot of hikes.

My dad used to like at the top of the mountain say, look at all this.

This is all just a glimpse of God's glory.

And I kind of felt that way being out there.

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