This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we continue with our series called Doing Business with God.

In this series, Rick helps you understand called Doing Business with God.

In this series, Rick helps you understand why you work,

what you should be working for,

and how God can use you in your workplace.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part two of a message called

standing out at work. This last week I I sent a letter, showed a letter to my

staff that was written 10 years ago and it was a letter telling me

from the publisher of Zondervyn by the head publisher there, the head editor, guy editing my book, that purpose-driven life was a terrible

book and that it would never sell.

And I sent him the original manuscript and I got this letter, I preserved the letter, and he systematically

goes to the book and says, these are all the things wrong why it won't sell.

It's got 40 chapters. Nobody reads 40 chapters. It doesn't have enough

stories in it. And I said I'm not putting stories in it because I want it to be an international

book and I don't want it to just be for Americas. It's got too many scriptures in it.

I said, I trust the scripture more than my words.

And he had a whole list of things.

It's choppy here and on and on and on.

And I wrote him back and I had to say you know what I value

your opinion and I showed the staff the letter that I sent back to him I value your

opinion but I believe this is the way I'm supposed to do it.

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