Pope-style advice: listen longer before you speak
- Outside of anointed kings and prophets, is there any biblical example of God assigning someone a specific vocation?
After more Paul examples (the Macedonian dream, the angel who broke Peter out of prison and just left him there, Pentecost) and a joke riff on vocations (no biblical example of God assigning a career outside anointed kings and prophets — 'stop making those tents, Paul'), the show's recurring 'pope style' advice bit lands on listening: be quick to listen and slow to speak. A Christianity Today article about formerly gay and transgender believers who met Jesus prompts the 'knife in the arm' analogy — the obvious problem is easy to name, but listening longer reveals how it got there, and advice given too early validates that no answer exists.
More on Vocation
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Home-run prayers
- Is it appropriate for athletes to pray for wins and claim God told them they would hit a home run?
A host opens the episode with a hard question about whether athletes should pray for personal success: if a welder or lawn-mower worker prays to be the best for God's glory, should a baseball player pray to hit a home run for God?
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The deconstruction post: guilt, vocation, and Shoney's
The hosts return to the musician's deconstruction post, postponing the full 'walking away from Jesus' segment to next week.
From No. 537 · The Bible Confuseth
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"True self," personality boxes, and the privilege of the critique
Mike questions the "find your true self" premise — what if your true self is emotionally withdrawn, or bad at finding itself?
From No. 520 · Bring Your Purse to Brunch
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Trades, desk-job emptiness, and rejecting the premise
Ben says he mostly sees Jesus-following men carrying heavy burdens to serve wives and children, not schmucks.
From No. 520 · Bring Your Purse to Brunch