What does it look like to faithfully follow Christ in the work you do every day?

In Your Corner of the World, Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Christians working across business, medicine, education, government, the arts, and more about how biblical wisdom shapes the way they work, lead, serve, and make decisions.

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The show also explores the connection between the workplace and the local church—helping pastors better understand the challenges their people face Monday through Saturday and helping Christians see how their gifts and experience can serve the church.

Whatever your work looks like, the goal is simple: to help you faithfully serve God in your corner of the world.

Transcript

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0:00:00 – (Dan Doriani): Hi, this is Dan Doriani. I’m here to introduce a podcast called you’d Corner of the World and I’m operating with my friend and co host, Mark Vrogop. The goal of this podcast is to bring God’s wisdom and truth and light and grace into the workplace for leaders and non leaders in every corner of the

0:00:21 – (Mark Vroegop): world. I’m just really excited to be on this journey with you, Dan, to interview amazing marketplace leaders and help local church leaders know how to better serve people in the workforce.

0:00:33 – (Dan Doriani): We’re going to have a bunch of interesting people. We may have surgeons and librarians and professional athletes and entertainers and accountants who can be really interesting. It’s not boring to be an accountant, engineers, people in business, people in government, maybe an ambassador, a senator, people like that, all sorts of folks. Where believers have been trying their best and faithfully operating in a sphere of the world that may be alien to us. And, and yet we hope everybody who’s worked hard in one field has something to say to people in other fields. And then we strive to understand how to work that out Monday to Friday and Saturday.

0:01:14 – (Dan Doriani): And a lot of people want to dedicate their work to the Lord, but they don’t actually know how. The thing that I

0:01:18 – (Mark Vroegop): also want to see happen is the connection between Monday through Saturday to Sunday. I’m thinking, how can I help local pastors understand what it’s like to be a marketplace leader so they have better applications, better discipleship, and so that the people they serve in the marketplace that they know, wow. Church is a place that I really can use my gifts

0:01:40 – (Dan Doriani): for the glory of God. So we’re hoping to have marketplace leaders, church leaders, and we’re also interested in non leaders. Well, I hope folks will tune in to your corner of the world coming at you soon.

Dan Doriani (MDiv, PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary; STM, Yale Divinity School; research fellow, Yale University, 1981, 1995) is professor of theology at Covenant Theological Seminary; interim senior pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama; and a Board member of The Gospel Coalition. He is the founder and president of the Center for Faith and Work, St. Louis. He has written many books on exegesis and biblical ethics, most recently Romans and Matthew in the Reformed Expository Commentary series, Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and Applying the Bible, and Work That Makes a Difference. He has three children and five grandchildren.

Mark Vroegop (BA, Cedarville University; MDiv, Cornerstone Seminary) is the president of The Gospel Coalition. He served in pastoral ministry leadership for nearly 30 years, most recently as the lead pastor of College Park Church in Indianapolis. An award-winning author, Mark has written several books, including Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament and Waiting Isn’t a Waste: The Surprising Comfort of Trusting God in the Uncertainties of Life. Mark is married to Sarah, and they have three married sons, a college-aged daughter, and five grandchildren. You can find Mark on Facebook, Instagram, and X.