We're now about a dozen years into the podcast or 11 and a half years of

podcasting to be more exact. We have talked a lot about work over those years. We've talked about career

building and finding our vocational calling how to glorify God at work and on the

issues of when to leave a job and how to avoid overworking and idolizing a career

and issues of laziness and personal productivity and how do you define all those things,

many huge issues in our past that have been covered and I tried to

write those up into a digest in the Aspaster John book on pages 67 to 94 if you want to

see the ground that we've covered in that section and in this podcast we've also

taken up the question of what vocations are worthy of the Christian and which ones

are not worthy of the Christian. A marketer at Nike once emailed in to ask if his job

marketing luxury goods to people who don't need them but want them was that

life vain. You might remember that episode in

A. B. 15-19 that comes to my mind. We're back on a similar topic today in today's

question from an anonymous man. Telepastor John I am a building contractor and in my region recently I was asked to join

up with a construction partner I've worked with before and one I really like and enjoy working

with to help complete one of their own projects. The project is a Mormon

temple. Is this out of the question for a Christian who leads a construction crew to

consider working on such a project like a temple like this or even a mosque or a

casino or other things like that. How should I think through making this moral

decision on behalf of the crew I lead.

Probably I should start where I'm going to end, namely, by saying that this is the kind of question that has enough layers of ambiguity that I should not be dogmatic but admit that good Christians believing the

same Bible may come to different conclusions.

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