Excerpt From The Interview

“I think that it’s been a slow burn across more than two or three decades. What’s disappointing about the last two or three decades is that in a lot of other areas of public life, the church has come back around to saying, ‘Okay, Christians should not abandon politics. They should not abandon education.’ We’ve seen a huge increase in certain Christian engagement in some of these other cultural spheres.

Yet in the last two or three decades as a faith and work movement has risen from the ground up, it hasn’t engaged and embraced that the reward of work is the work itself. The inherent dignity, the inherent purpose, this sort of theological appreciation for the value of the actual activity. We’re still focused on work being good for some thing that comes out of it. This includes providing for our family or tithing to our church. We still have not captured the essence of work being valuable because the work itself matters to God.”

About David Bahnsen

David L. Bahnsen is the Founder, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Bend, Nashville, Minneapolis, Austin and Phoenix, managing over $5 billion in client assets. David is consistently named one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron’s, Forbes and the Financial Times. A frequent guest on Fox News, Fox Business, CNBC and Bloomberg, he is also a regular contributor to National Review and World and appears weekly on The World and Everything in It podcast, where he discusses the week’s economic and market news. 

David is a founding trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County and serves on the Board of Directors for National Review. Passionate about the integration of faith and economics, he has lectured and written for years about a theology of wealth and the marketplace. His late father, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, was a renowned Christian apologist and is David’s personal hero and mentor. David is the author of several best-selling books including Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018) and There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021).

Links Mentioned

Full Time: Work and The Meaning of Life by David Bahnsen

The Bahnsen Group

David Bahnsen on other shows

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