Tim Keller is the founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City in his author of many

helpful books including one on work and vocation that has been very helpful to me.

It's titled, Every Good Endeavour Connecting Your Work to God's Work.

I talked with Dr. Keller on the important topics of business, vocation, and calling and

along the way we talked to college graduates, entering the workforce into Christians who

feel stuck in their jobs.

I began by asking him why it seems that applying a biblical worldview to the workplace seems

so slippery, so elusive.

Well, I think it's probably because of the fact that the church doesn't have a uniform,

it's not a consensus, you know, on how the church is supposed to relate to culture more

generally.

And, you know, actually, there's another book, this book, Center Church, in which I try

to tackle that.

I don't tackle it in the Every Good Endeavour book.

Basically, you've got very different views on how the church should relate to the culture.

It's based on very different views about common grace.

It's based on somewhat different views about actually the role of the institutional church.

And because of that, I think that doctrine of vocation, which everybody says, oh, yeah,

it's really important.

Really important that all work is a calling from God and that work is important and that

God has to come, you need to bring your faith and God to bear on your work, if that's

important.

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