THIS WEEK ONLY: Doors are open to the Mere Christians Community!

Hey friend, you listen to the Mere Christians Podcast because you want the Gospel to shape everything you do at home, in your community, and yes, in your work. But man, it can be tough to know what that looks like practically if you're not in community with other people who share your vocation and unique challenges that come with that vocation. That is why I created the Mere Christians Community, a space for you to work alongside me and other Mere Christians to more deeply apply the Gospel to your specific work. Now listen, the doors to this popular community have been closed for six months, but this week they're wide open for you to join@jordanraynor.com MCC those doors will be open until Friday, March 29th at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time. And hey, listen, when you sign up, you're gonna get access to a ton of value, basically everything I think you need to more deeply apply the gospel to your work. Let me quickly tell you about just five of the most valuable member benefits inside of the community. Number one, and I think this is by far the most valuable, what we call vocational small groups. So as soon as you sign up, you're going to take a survey and we're going to route you to a small group of people who share your general vocation and commitment to Jesus Christ. Your group meets twice a month to workshop workplace challenges, to pray for each other and discuss some of my content and talk through questions like hey, how is the gospel freeing you from the work beneath your work? And hey, fellow believers, I've got this challenge at work. How do I think biblically about this thing? Or hey, what's the most significant way in the last two weeks that the Gospel has changed how we do our work? Those are some of the questions we ask in what we call our VSGs or Vocational Small groups. That's the first member benefit and I cannot tell you how incredibly valuable they are in producing genuine disciples of Jesus Christ in the workplace. We hear testimony after testimony about this all the time. They're great. All right, number two, the Mere Christians Book Club. I love doing this. Every quarter I send members of the Mere Christians community a summary of one of my all time favorite books or a new book that I'm really, really, really digging and got an advanced copy of. And then I send a summary of the book along with my favorite highlights and my biggest takeaways. And then we all hop on zoom to discuss the book together. Along with this quarter, I've chosen my friend Cal Newport's incredible new book called Slow Productivity the Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burning out. If you love Cal's work, deep work, digital minimalism, a world without email. If you love redeeming your time, you are not going to want to miss the three months that we spend in this community walking through it on Slack and then getting together on Zoom at the end of the quarter to unpack the book with the author, Cal Newport and myself. All right, number three, third member benefit that you're gonna be super jazzed about. It's this hour long Zoom call we have once a quarter that we call Backstage Pass, where you get to talk directly with some of the most impressive people you've heard on this podcast. So we've had Mark Batterson before, Cheryl Bachelder, the former CEO of Popeyes, my buddy Graham Cochran, and on April 25, we're going to be hosting my friend Tamika Catchings, one of the greatest athletes of all time, easily the greatest women's basketball player of all time. And oh by the way, you may not know this about Tameka. She's also a super talented entrepreneur. So if you want to connect with Tameka and ask her something about building strong team cultures, whether it's on a basketball court or in a boardroom, whatever, and do it in a Jesus like way, join the Mere Christians community. You can get access to this call that we're having in just a few weeks. All right, a couple more member benefits you got to know about. Number four, office hours. This monthly Zoom, not quarterly like those other calls I just mentioned. Every single month I hop on Zoom for an hour where you can ask me anything you want. You want to start your own podcast, but you're not sure how. Happy to walk you through it. Got questions about redeeming your time or writing or how the gospel is shaping your work? Great. This is the place to ask it in. Every single one of these calls, by the way, is recorded and archived for you to access later on just in case you can't attend live. Finally, number five. And this is far from the final benefit of joining the Mere Christians community, but this is the last one I'm going to share. In an effort to keep this bonus episode really short, these local meetups that we do with me and your fellow Mere Christians, other other other people who are listening to this podcast, we get together, we grab a drink in Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago, Nashville, wherever I'm traveling to speak. I put on one of these meetups exclusively for members of the Mere Christian community. And as soon as you join, you're going to get access to those meeting invites. All of that and way more guys for just 35 bucks a month. And of course you can cancel anytime, but don't wait. Again, the doors have been closed for six months, but they are open right now. But they will close at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 29th. You can join the community right now at jordanrayner.com MCC Again, that's jordanrayner.com McC I'm looking forward to seeing you there.