Welcome to Living My Faith, a weekly show that celebrates the everyday believers who are walking with Jesus not just on Sundays, but in every area of their lives. From relationships and parenting to health, habits, and home, our guests share how they keep their faith at the center of it all. Hosted in Jacksonville, Florida and supported by Christ-centered partners, Living My Faith is a space where real life meets real faith. Today our host, James Fenimore, spoke with Angie Breidenbach and Chris Young.
Angie Breidenbach
Executive Director of the International Institute of Genealogical Studies
Website Address: https://genealogicalstudies.com
Chris Young
President of The Good Place Institute
Website Address: https://goodplaceinstitute.com
Transcript:
James:
Hi and welcome to Living My Faith. I’m James Fenimore, and today we’ve got two special guests for you. This is the show where we really highlight how people are living their faith. And we’re going to do it through our great guests today.
Joining me, we have Chris Young and Angie Breidenbach. Guys, how are you doing?
Angie:
Great.
Chris:
Doing great. Thank you.
James:
Thank you so much for joining me today. It’s such a pleasure.
Angie, we’re going to start with you because Chris and I are real gentlemen, and we’re always going to go to the ladies first.
Angie, how are you living your faith?
Angie:
I just live it every day. I think that it’s really hard to always be looking at somebody who’s, like, super famous, you know, all of those famous people on the movies and the radio and and they have big splashes.
I don’t think that everyday faith is always a big splash. I think it’s when somebody tells you they’re hurting, you offer to pray for them. When somebody tells you they need you, you’re there for them. When somebody asks you for a favor, you are Christ’s hands.
I think it’s an everyday thing. It’s not a job. It’s just who you are.
James:
Amazing. Hands and feet of Jesus, I love it. That’s wonderful.
All right, Chris, you know what’s coming. I can’t surprise you now, right?
How are you living your faith?
Chris:
Great. Well, so many ways to answer that, but maybe a couple of ways.
One, I love that answer. The desire to just walk with Jesus in the everyday stuff of life is one.
And number two, I’ve been on this kick lately where if the first sentence of the Bible is true, you know, in the beginning God created good and very good, then he created with purpose and design, and his design is optimally fulfilling his purpose.
So you’re trying to live a very purposeful life and just saying, God, what is your purpose for myself, for my marriage, for my parenting, and in our context of what we do at the Institute, is what’s your purpose for work and really a desire to walk God’s purpose out in everyday life.
James:
That’s incredible. And Chris, I’d like to stay with you because you mentioned your work. So why don’t you tell us a little bit more about the Institute or any other endeavors you have going on?
Chris:
Sure. Yeah. The Good Place Institute, really, “good place” is a euphemism for the kingdom.
So the institute is all about multiplying good places, good place businesses, and about bringing more and more of the characteristics of God’s kingdom to business, to the workplace, to organizations, to individuals and communities.
So that he can get glory, creation can get thriving and humans can get flourishing.
And we do training and consulting and all that sort of thing, but it’s really about organizational design, trying to integrate a holistic approach to organizational design, not just what we call sprinkling evangelism on top of a worldly business model that’s still defining success in Wall Street metrics.
It’s really the desire to integrate and embody principles, values of God’s kingdom into the DNA, into the culture, into the operating system of a business in an organization so that more and more people, where we spend the majority of our waking hours is at work, so more and more people, while they’re at work, can be experiencing these characteristics of God’s kingdom for their individual flourishing and for the organization’s thriving and experience the King himself.
So that’s the work that we do in the marketplace and consulting and journeying with businesses.
James:
God bless Marketplace Ministries, where it’s at. You know, you said I take your Sunday into Monday like we spend more time at our office than we are at our houses sometimes.
So we got to bring the kingdom with us, right?
And you also are working through your faith, and working through your work.
So I’d like to hear a lot about what you have going on with your work.
Angie:
Well, thank you. I do a lot of teaching and writing and editing, but really I work with people every day, day in and day out.
And it doesn’t mean that my business is per se a Christian business, but that I am.
And so when I am working with people, it is exactly that. You bloom where God has planted you.
And it doesn’t mean that I have to be a designated missionary out in the field.
I teach people that we all have cautionary tales and heroic tales and average everyday Joe tales.
And the interesting thing is that we learn from all of them, the things that we’ve overcome, the things we’ve done wrong, and those things can be forgiven.
And I love that this is Easter time right now, because we were just listening to some gorgeous music and several different singers were singing it on YouTube.
And you know the song, he’s alive, he’s alive and I’m forgiven, heaven’s doors are open wide.
And that is how I need to live and work.
And so if somebody asks me a question, I don’t hide that.
And I offer support for that.
And a lot of times when you’re doing genealogy, you come across things that are scary or things that are shocking, and people find out that maybe their parents or their grandparents aren’t who they are, and then they feel either ashamed or they’re ashamed of what is in their own lives.
And you can offer them heaven’s door open wide, because he is alive.
And your story, your life, your heart, your spirit, your soul, you’re redeemable because of what he did for us on the cross.
James:
Amen. Wow. I never even thought of that, how impactful you could be with genealogy.
Because the more this becomes prevalent, I was on ancestry last night, I think I have 75 fourth cousins.
I don’t even know what a fourth cousin is, but I got 75 of them.
Chris, before the show, we were talking about how you are going to be at SWC, which is the national convention for the US Christian Chamber of Commerce.
I’m going to be there too. I’m so excited about it.
What are you most excited about?
Chris:
Well, the title is not either or, it’s both.
And so it blows up the sacred secular myth.
You know, it’s not kingdom or business, it’s kingdom business.
It’s not faith or work, it’s faith and work.
So I’m honored and thankful to be a part of a group that we’re leading the Faith at Work laboratory.
Chuck Proudfit, Mark Griffin, and yeah, we’re looking forward to just meeting a lot of brand new people.
I think 85% are business owners, business leaders, so really people who make decisions on behalf of a lot of employees and their families.
And when we can change the organizational design, the organizational structure to really embody kingdom principles and values, it’s a game changer.
So that’s what I’m looking forward to the most.
I think it was Billy Graham who said, hey, the next great revival is going to be in the marketplace.
And we think it’s more than just an evangelism revival.
It’s really a kingdom taking revival of God’s kingdom permeating the marketplace through kingdom integrated, kingdom activated businesses.
James:
Let’s go. I cannot wait.
I’m getting fired up already.
So I really can’t wait to see you there, Chris.
And this was such a treat talking to you.
I can’t tell you what this is going to do for our audience, just showing them different ways they can be living out their faith, not just on those Sundays and those Bible studies, but in their everyday life, including where they’re at work, even if it’s not a Christian company.
And I can’t tell you what it means to have you guys here today.
So thank you so much for joining us.
Chris:
Thank you for having me.
Angie:
Yeah, thanks so much.
James:
Have a blessed day, guys.
For Living My Faith, I’m James Fenimore.
We can’t wait to see you next time.
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