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Mere Christians

Stephen Mansfield (Author of The Search for God and Guinness)

Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor

Entrepreneurship, Christianity, Business, Careers, Master Of One, The Call To Mastery, Entrepreneur, The Creator In You, Calling, Called To Create, Vocation, Christian Entrepreneur, Call To Mastery, Christian Business, Faith And Work, Mere Christians, Author, Raynor, Tim Keller, Jordan Raynor, Christian Professional, Creator In You, Redeeming Your Time, Redeem The Day, Religion & Spirituality, Theology Of Work, Professional Growth

51K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How Guinness scratched-off the veil between heaven and earth

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0:00.0

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

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the gospel influence the work of mere Christians?

0:14.8

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

0:17.6

but who work as chefs and welders and managers?

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That's the question we explore every week and today I'm posing it

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to Stephen Mansfield, the New York Times best-selling author of a number of

0:31.3

terrific biographies including one of my all-time favorite biographies,

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The Search for God and Guinness.

0:40.7

Stephen and I finally sat down to talk about how Arthur Guinness's faith motivated him to sign a 9,000 year lease on the property that the Guinness Brewery is still sitting on today.

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We talked about why monks and nuns in the 1700s viewed brewing beer as deeply missional.

1:01.0

And we talked about how Arthur Guinness created a thin place between heaven

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and earth.

1:08.8

You are going to love this phenomenal episode with my new friend Stephen Mansfield.

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Stephen Mansfield.

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Stephen Mansfield, welcome to the podcast.

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It's great to be with you, thank you so much.

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Yeah.

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Hey, I'm curious, how did you get into this lane of writing biographies?

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How did that happen?

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Well, it's interesting.

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I didn't do well in school as a young guy.

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When I became a Christian, obviously I became more literary just by as we have to,

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