Hey everybody 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 food scientists,

executive assistants, and Railroad Conductors.

That's the question we explore every week,

and today I'm posing it to my friend Mark Batterson.

He's the founding pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. and the author of some mammoth

best-selling books like The Circlemaker in a pit with a lion on a snowy day and

win the day Mark and I sat down for the second time on this show to talk about his newest book, Please Sorry Thanks.

We talked about the best please Mark has ever received to speak at an event and how you can mimic that

type of please.

We talked about how an intern once confronted Mark with some radical but loving candor and we talked about why it's so

dangerous to treat the great commission as the only commission that mere Christians

are called to.

Trust me, you're not going to want to miss this great episode with Mark Baddison and my friend welcome back to the podcast. Hey great to be back with you Jordan here we go. Hey I learned something new

about you in this new book that I don't think I'd ever read before.

Your first job at a gas station.

How old were you? What were you doing?

Oh, you know it. I was probably, I might have been 17 and let me tell you what I didn't pump the gas okay it

wasn't a full story you're not that old no I'm not I'm not that old I grew up watching

Andy Griffith and Gomer Pilot the gas station but I wore a beautiful brown uniform quick-filled gas station and I pulled in the big bucks. I think we were at 525 an hour back in the day.

Yeah, you know what though Jordan hard jobs make you appreciate dream jobs.

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