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 lab technicians, engravers, and retail

managers. That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it to Scott Sanju a crazy impressive executive in the sports industry.

Today Scott serves as managing director of Trailrunner International.

Before that, Scott spent about a decade as president and co-owner of the Frisco Ruff Riders, an affiliate of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers,

where he was named Texas Executive of the Year.

Scott and I recently sat down to discuss why viewing sports as trivial or even entertainment

as trivial diminishes inadvertently the sovereignty of God.

We talked about why you and I are tempted to assign priority

to things where God does not, and how we Christians should embrace free enterprise but also reject it in a lot of ways and think differently

about it because of our apprenticeship to Jesus Christ. I think you guys are going to

love this conversation with my new friend Scott Sanjay.

Scott Sanjay.

Scott Sanju, welcome to the Meer Christians podcast. Thank you so much, great to be with you.

Hey, so in the introduction of this episode, I shared your crazy long, crazy impressive history in sports management. I'm curious what was your first

job in sports like did this start really really early in your career? It did start early my

first job in sports is right out of college and I was working entry level for the Dallas Mavericks

in the kind of ticket sales and services area. What were you doing?

Literally picking up the phone and selling tickets to groups, is that what that job is? That was part of it,

is being very proactive,

making a lot of outbound calls

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