Hey friend and welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rayner.

How does the Gospel influence the work of mere, those of us who aren't pastors or

religious professionals, but who work as truck drivers, translators, and shoemakers.

That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it to my friend Mike

Kelsey. He's a lead pastor at McLean Bible Church in Virginia alongside David Platt and the rest of the team on staff at

McLean.

Mike is not a mere Christian, but I love from time to time bringing in pastors like Mike who can help us understand important theological concepts

that are super practically relevant to the work that mere Christians do in the world.

And that's what we're doing today.

We're going deep on this idea of common grace.

We're gonna talk about what common grace is,

why common grace is the key to worship being more while you work and

experience the work of others and how calling out the work of non-Christians

as God's work can build bridges for sharing the gospel.

This is one of my favorite episodes I've recorded in quite a while.

Please enjoy this terrific episode with my friend, Mike Kelsey.

Mike Kelsey, welcome to the Mir Christians podcast.

Man, it's good to be on. I've been a fan of the show for a long time.

We'll get into it, but I kind of fan-boyed you when we first met, so thanks for having me on, man.

So this is our one and only interaction.

We're hanging out at this event in Colorado a couple years ago

and yeah you came up to me like oh man I I listened to the show

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