Re-Imagine Law

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

How can practicing the law be shaped by the Christian faith? And how can we reimagine lawyering? If you’re reimagining the legal profession, you don’t want to just be a Christian who happens to also be a lawyer. You want the way you practice the law to be shaped by your faith. For this reimagining, we need to understand three things from Christian theology: 1) that every human being is called to be a gardener, 2) that the law is a form of gardening, and 3) that you need to figure out your own idols. This talk and Q&A was given by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on November 2, 2007. Series: Center for Faith and Work. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel and Life.
0:05.8	If you have a job, it's likely that you think about it, a lot.
0:09.7	But how much have you thought about the biblical approach to your work?
0:13.7	Today on Gospel in Life, Tim Keller shows us that the Bible has incredibly helpful and practical wisdom we can apply to the work we do.
0:21.6	Wisdom you may find surprising, even life-changing.
0:32.6	Now, actually, it may be – you never know.
0:35.8	I suspect that the Q&A may be more helpful than what
0:40.9	I'm about to say so actually I'm going to be careful not to go on too long when we're talking about
0:45.9	a very very large subject and it's also uh when it comes to being a Christian lawyer being a
0:52.0	Christian artist being a Christian lawyer, being a Christian artist, being a Christian business,
0:55.4	person, the problem everybody's got is that nobody's got all the skills and nobody's got all the
1:01.7	knowledge. So, for example, I have, you know, I'm a professional in the area of theology and Bible,
1:10.0	you're amateurs. Your professionals in the area of theology and Bible, you're amateurs.
1:17.7	Your professionals in the area of law, I'm, I mean, you know, actually, frankly, I'm a bigger amateur in law than you are in the Bible and theology because you go to church,
1:21.8	if you go to church, whereas I don't go someplace every seven days and hear somebody talk
1:26.9	about law.
1:28.3	So you're actually ahead of me in a certain sense.
1:32.4	You know more about my field than I know about your field.
1:34.5	But as you see, you really can't have a nuanced, wise approach to what it means to be a Christian in a particular profession.
1:41.5	Unless you get more than one kind of person together regularly talking about what are the issues what's actually out there what's actually happening
1:49.3	uh you know your field uh and you need theologians you need ethicists you need academics
1:57.7	you need pastors as well as people in law.
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