The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode.

Hey everybody, welcome to the call to mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. Merry Christmas to all of you.

I debated whether or not to release an episode today, but I figured why not? While you've got got some downtime while you're spending time with family

I want to give you the gift of a great episode to listen to and this is an episode that I'm going to treasure for a really long time.

Today you're going to hear my conversation with Missy Wallace,

who's the executive director for the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work.

She's a masterful leader whose organization, in my opinion, is doing some of the best

work and equipping Christians to connect their faith to the work. She's one of the best thinkers

on this topic. But we sat down recently to talk about what it means that on that first Christmas day, God

chose for Jesus to be born into the home of a carpenter, not a priest, not the home of a Pharisee God plays Jesus in the home of Joseph a carpenter and we're

going to talk about the eternal significance of that and what that means for our own work.

We're also going to talk about Missy's path from a crazy impressive career

in Management Consulting, that the Boston Consulting group

to doing the work that she's doing today and helping the church

connect their faith of their work.

And finally, we talked about what church leaders can do very practically on Sundays

to help every member of their congregations

understand the eternal significance of their work.

You're going to love this conversation.

So without further ado, here's my conversation with Missy Wallace.

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