Hey everybody welcome to the mere Christians podcast I'm Jordan Rainer. How does the

gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

Those of us who aren't pastors or religious professionals,

but who work as judges and personal trainers and nurse practitioners.

That's the question we explore every week,

and today I'm posing it to my friend Sean Copeland.

Sean is the chairman and CEO of Region Bank in Oklahoma City, which has grown

organically from 72 million to 1 billion dollars in assets, making it one of America's fastest growing banks.

Sean and I recently sat down to talk about the impact he's seen from requiring all of his managers to spend 30 minutes every week with every direct report

with no work on the agenda?

We talked about how Sean has seen God bring seven of his coworkers

to saving faith in Jesus Christ and we talked about the freedom that is found

when you realize that all of us are just playing with house money,

guys I think you're gonna love this conversation with Sean Copeland, and welcome to the podcast.

Thanks, Jordan, it's good to be with you.

So we got to hang out for an event in Kansas City where you were like the King MC of this event.

Was that your first professional MC gig? Not professional, I'm just kidding.

Was that your first? It was definitely the longest MC event that I've ever done and

she'll recall it was multiple days, multiple speakers, all kinds of stuff going on.

So I've been

if it is normally in a one or two hour window

where we can have dinner and all go home,

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