September 30, 2022 Show with Reagan Rose on “Redeeming Productivity: Getting More Done for the Glory of God”

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Today is Friday, isn't it?

I've been so busy lately that I'm losing track of time.

Yes, Friday, September 30th, 2022, and I'm thrilled to

have as my guest today, for the very first time, Reagan Rose, who

received his MDiv from the Master's Seminary.

He is former director of Digital Platforms, for grace to you, the media ministry of Dr. John MacArthur,

and founder of Redeeming Productivity, a ministry which helps Christians develop a

biblically grounded understanding of personal productivity, so they can get more done

for the glory of God.

Today we are addressing his book by the same title, Redeeming Productivity, Getting More

Done for the Glory of God.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you, for the very first time ever, to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Reagan Rose.

It's an honor for me.

Well, the honor and pleasure is all mine, and I'm sure my audience, once they hear you

lay out everything that you want them to know about Redeeming Productivity, they'll be very thrilled that

you have been a guest here.

First of all, tell us something about how you got involved

in trying to help brothers and sisters in Christ redeem

productivity.

Was it because you already had a knack for

this, something that you developed early on, where you were organized

and able to make the best proper use of your time?

Or were you the opposite to that, like me, and in

struggling to overcome a very lack of organization

and putting things in their proper perspective and priority,

had to learn to redeem productivity?

Well,

we

have a

tradition here on

Iron Sharpens

Iron Radio,.

Whenever we have a first -time guest, we have that guest provide for our audience a

summary of their salvation testimony, and that would include the kind of religious atmosphere in

which you were raised, if any, and what kind of providential circumstances

our Sovereign Lord raised up in your life that drew you to himself and saved you.

So let's hear your story.

At that

moment,

it was

somewhere in

the

last

few years.

Well, how did you get involved with Grace to

You Ministries and also the Master's Seminary?

That's an interesting story, actually, because I am not from California.

As if the Sovereign God of all the universe ever attempts to do

anything.

Amen.

The doctrine of the

clarity of

Scripture

really was what led me to.

Now, when did you come to the doctrines of Sovereign Grace?

Was it before you enrolled in the Master's Seminary, or was it during your

being a student there?

It was before

I had

been introduced

to what was.

Well, I always love hearing that.

It's music to my ears.

Well, this book that we are going to be addressing today has some

endorsements by people that I know personally and have interviewed on this program

and have received glowing commendations for this program from them, which you can read on

my website, ironsharpensironradio .com.

But I'd like to read first Nate Pickowitz's endorsement.

He is one of my favorite authors, one of my favorite guests to interview.

And I'm looking forward to my next opportunity to hear him preach at a conference.

But Nate says about this book we are addressing, Redeeming Productivity, Getting More

Done for the Glory of God, Before I entered pastoral ministry, I spent several years

working in the business world.

In keeping step with other successful businessmen in my office, I read numerous books on how to

increase sales, manage my time, stay motivated and make lots of money.

However, none of these practices truly helped me or gave glory to God.

In many ways, it felt like I was running on a hamster wheel, chasing

productivity, but not really knowing why.

As I grew in my knowledge and love of the Lord, my focus began to change.

Having had this previous experience, I was overjoyed and thankful to read Reagan

Rose's book, Redeeming Productivity.

He gives voice to the issue of being productive, not simply for one's own good, but for

God's ultimate glory.

Not only does Reagan give a bevy of helpful tools for personal efficiency,

but he grounds the whole book in the Word of God.

This is an invaluable resource that I wish I had two decades ago.

However, I'm glad it's here now.

And another endorser of this book, someone that should not be a

stranger to the Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio audience, another former guest on this program,

Chris Larson, who is president and CEO of Ligonier Ministries, the ministry founded by the late

Dr. R .C. Sproul.

Chris says, Fruitful labor is a gift from the Lord, as he graciously works in and through his people

for his good pleasure.

Productivity is not so much a science to be studied, but a prayerful discipline to cultivate,

entrusting our service to the faithful Lord of the harvest, who is always working in our lives,

in our families, in our churches, and in our communities.

In this insightful book, Reagan Rose distills biblical wisdom as we pursue

productivity, not for our glory, but for God alone.

Two very powerful endorsements for this book that should be reason for

our audience to have their appetites whetted and for them to want to get a hold of this.

What immediately came to mind while reading these commendations, especially

when reading Nate Pickowitz's commendation, is my many years

in the Christian broadcasting field.

Prior to becoming a talk show host, I was for 15 years

an account executive for the world's largest Christian

radio network, the Salem Media Corporation.

And while employed there, we would frequently have to attend

conferences and seminars that would involve things like the concept

of redeeming productivity.

And as good as these men were in the secular realm, at least

that's what has been claimed by many people who swear by them,

who claim that their careers didn't even really launch until

following the advice and counsel of these famous men that have written books on

this sort of thing, I always left those

events feeling let down and

being very disappointed in the fact that some of these men, not all,

some of these men and women who were the keynote speakers profess to be Christian,

and yet their worldview and the heart of their beliefs seem to be at

odds with very crucial Christian concepts.

So I am also very glad that you have written a book that appears

from what Nate and Chris have said, because I have not yet received the book from the publisher.

This is a very late minute booking of our guest today, and I

thank him for so quickly being interested in being on the show.

He comes to us by the enthusiastic recommendations of my webmaster and other people

I know.

But I'm glad to hear what they have said.

These are two men whose opinions I trust and whose discernment I respect and highly

regard.

And have you found this in your own life, that very often when you are

in, especially if you are in a business that is

involved in sales and productivity is

obviously an extremely important factor in whether or not not only do

you get bonuses and get

superior positions granted to you in whatever field it

may be, in whatever corporation or business you're working for, but your very job is at stake

when you are involved in things like that.

And have you personally been disappointed, as I have been, and as Nate

has been, by being told by your employees, follow the advice and counsel of these experts,

and you leave there saying, I'm wondering if that person who claimed to be a Christian was even

regenerate.

Yeah,

no, I

just think,

what is it about the way that Christians should think about productivity biblically that's different

than how the world thinks?

And the first one is, why do I want to...

You want to be productive so you can be more successful.

And it's almost not even said, it's just assumed.

Like, of course that's why you do it.

That's why it often...

But

you belong to God,

missing

so that you

can turn a bigger profit.

What are some of the initial things that you, as a person who,

like me, the difference between you and me is that this is

something that is from your past, not in your present, like me.

One of the first things that you realized, this is the number one thing that I've got to change

in my life to increase productivity in what God has called me to do,

in what field God has placed me in, in order to bring Him greater glory.

What was the initial thing, or perhaps even things, plural, that

began to fall like dominoes in your life that you had to

transform by the help and grace of God?

You know,

because

I

wasn't

planning...

Examine your morning.

What do you do when you first get up?

Do you... do

you... morning routine?

What does it even mean to be productive?

Model T's, how I do...

I

think

that if we go...

even what

it means...

It's a lot...

Fruit...

If you walk close...

Keep...

you will...

And we have to go to our first break right now.

If anybody would like to send in a question to our guest, Reagan Rose, on redeeming

productivity, our email address is...

Give us your first name at least, your city and state, and your country of residence.

Don't go away.

We'll be right back with Reagan Rose, right after these messages.

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We're now back with our guest, Reagan Rose, discussing his book

Redeeming Productivity, Getting More Done for the Glory of God.

Our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com.

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As always, give us your first name, at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA.

We have Ted in Moundville, Alabama, who says, I was interested by your guest's background in

the emerging slash emergent church.

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out from the emergent church experience, and number two, if he thinks there have been lasting

negative effects of the emergent church on contemporary evangelical belief and

practice.

And if that is the case, he wants to know what those lasting negative

effects are.

So, first start with the positive, if any, and then the negative.

Yeah, you know,

was

correct.

And so I

think in

that sense,

it did

need to be

critiqued.

So, as far as the lasting negative effects that

you think are experienced by those who were involved in it, do you

think that that far outweighs anything good that happened?

Such a

negative

experience

for many

people.

Yeah.

It's tarnished the reputation of Reformed churches because that movement,

much of it was closely aligned in some way with Reformed

theology and churches, and there were men whose

reputation for being very discerning has been tarnished, men who

applauded some of the leaders of that movement initially, and even co -authored books.

With

them.

That

eagerness,

I think that a lot of discernment

were big names in this movement, a lot

of them, because the evidences were there from the start, from the people

that

were close.

It's going to

be the next thing,

big Eva desire to be hip and cool, I think a

lot

of that.

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I find it difficult to swallow that, not that everything about that statement is wrong.

We can even learn from those individuals in the business realm who

are lost if they are successful at what they do and are not violating anything that

God commands, but at the same time to use that as a statement

of fact in all areas of how we can deduct ourselves to achieve

success to me is dangerous and I was wondering what your guest thinks.

In fact, we are going to have you answer that question when we return from our midway break because I don't want to cut you off in

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Hi, I'm Pete Hegseth, co -host of Fox and Friends Weekend.

Now, I don't have to tell you but American education, it's in a free fall, crumbling under the weight of a century of

damage inflicted upon America's academic system.

The answer?

It's called Classical Christian Education, a form of K through 12 ed that's very distinct from the

type of education most Americans have received, myself included.

And that's why I'm so excited to have been invited by my friends at Long Island's Grace Christian

Academy to talk about this wonderful growing movement and new approach rediscovered to education.

It's at 7 p .m. October 15th at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Melville, New York.

I'll also be signing copies of my New York Times bestselling book, Battle for the American Mind, for the first 50

guests starting at 6 p .m.

Now, this is a fundraising event designed to raise money to help grow this type of education at a time

when it is so desperately needed.

So please come ready to give and to learn about a way to stimulate academic revival in our

great country.

You can purchase tickets for the event by visiting gcali .com

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I hope to see you there.

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Give us your first name at least, your city and state, and your country of residence.

Before the break, you may remember, Reagan, that there was a listener, anonymous

listener, who said that the Christian -owned company

for which he or she works has said that the way we glorify

God here is to imitate what the best people in our field do,

the most successful people in our field, because by being successful ourselves,

we are going to be bringing greater glory to God.

So we just should be imitating them.

And although even the listener, the anonymous listener, acknowledged that it's not wrong

to imitate in certain ways and circumstances, even what lost people

do that brings them success in a certain sphere of life as long as we are not

sinning, as long as we're not violating God's commands and so on, but at the same time, is that

not a dangerous motto because of the

wrong way it may be applied by those who hear that kind of motto?

And even

the seeker -sensitive.

Movement.

People will say, we have 30 members in our church, and the

gigantic structure down the road, the Behemoth building

that has 10 ,000 people who are members or attending that church,

they must be doing something more correctly than we are, so we should start imitating them, and very often,

now it's not always the case, there are very large churches like the one that our hero, Dr. John

MacArthur, pastors, that do not compromise truth or

hang goat bait out the windows to attract goats into their

numbers, so we know that numeric size, even

if it's astronomically large, doesn't automatically mean that there's somebody

in the leadership of a church that's compromising or deceiving people with false teaching, but that

very often is the case, even Dr. MacArthur would admit that, and there are churches that

actually dwarf Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California in size, and very

often, they are giving a smooth and easy gospel, which is no real gospel at all,

they are just trying to reassure people that if they follow Christ, their lives will improve in

every way, and they never speak about sin, they never challenge

and charge the listeners to repent, they never discipline people,

especially if they're making a lot of money and contributing a large portion of that money to the church, and we could go

on and on, why that would be an ungodly way of imitating what

the world views as success.

Yeah, my church as well, the

seeker

-sensitive

church,

more people in the church, people by any means,

they're defining

success or excellence only in terms of you

have

to follow God,

truly be successful

if

you

do things

faithfully, thinking properly about it,

seeking, and you

may

succeed.

And that's more important anyway, that the world would look at that,

not the temporal.

Success.

Yes.

And there are times even when Christians who are involved in

sales, for instance, which has been my primary source of employment

for most of my adult life, advertising sales, there may be Christians

who are even tempted to exaggerate the truth or even outright lie

to potential clients, and that may bring temporal success.

You may make a lot of sales, but it's actually even if you were to remove a

Christian ethic and what God commands us to do and forbids us to do,

it's even stupid in the realm of secular society for a salesman,

because that may bring you temporal success, but what happens when these people realize that you have

exaggerated or lied in your claims?

Are they going to return to you?

No!

That's one of the reasons why when I have a number of folks from different

spheres of business and churches

and parachurch organizations who have contacted me regarding wanting to advertise on Iron

Trip and Zion Radio.

And I tell them right up front that the thing that should be the

greatest motivation for you to advertise with Iron Trip and Zion Radio is that you

love this show and want it to continue.

The number of customers or visitors or attendees or whatever it

is you're trying to achieve through your advertiser cannot be the goal with my particular vehicle for

advertising, because I can't promise anything like that.

I can point to my listeners that Solid Ground Christian Books is doing remarkably

well in their results for advertising.

They have new customers every month and a lot of them, and new sales and the

owner and operator Mike Gaydosh of Solid Ground Christian Books sometimes has kept me on the phone for long

periods of time reading very lengthy lists of these people.

do I make sense that even though we should always be thinking first and foremost about honoring and

obeying Christ, sometimes when we disobey Christ, it's even foolish in a completely secular realm.

I

don't

know

if I

told

the

anonymous

listener.

That he or she won a free copy of Redeeming Productivity getting more done for

the glory of God, but if you could, please send us by email your full name

which will not be divulged over the air your full address so that

CVBBS .com, Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service can ship that book out to you, compliments of

our friends at Moody Publishers who were generous enough to provide a limited number of copies of this book,

and if you're a first time listener, or a first time questioner, let me know because you also have

won a free New American Standard Bible, if that is the case.

We have another anonymous listener who asks something that is somewhat

similar to what the last questioner asked

but there is a different emphasis here an anonymous listener says

even while working for a Christian company the gurus of success that we

were told to read and watch on video and to see in live

seminars is that if you want to be a winner you hang around with

winners and you eliminate losers from your life because they will drag you down to

become a loser as well.

Is that really a Christian ethic?

I can't imagine Jesus Christ telling his disciples get rid of those losers that you're

hanging out with.

Exactly where my mind went.

He was accused.

Because he did because those were the sick they're the ones who needed.

Likewise, I don't see how.

In fact, Jesus never would have saved any of us if that was the way he thought of things because

we're all in a theological and anthropological and eternal sense we're

all losers as much as a loser could possibly be apart from his grace and mercy.

What

they're

trying

to

do is hold

you

back.

Yes, and obviously I'm sure you would agree that new converts

have to be very careful about the sinners

with whom they keep company.

You may have to become a more seasoned Christian before for instance if

you were a drunkard or a drug addict before you go back, you

return to some of those associates and friends that you were involved with

in committing those sins and be the light of Christ to them but

there may be a season of time where you have to permanently remove yourself from them

because you may be much more vulnerable especially at an early state in your faith, and even

then I think that you should never just especially if you're talking about friends who were

your comrades in the bar or in the crack house

or wherever it is that you were disobeying Christ through your addiction

or whatever sin it was even if it's somebody that you were committing adultery with or

something, I think that a final word of the gospel to them after you

have found faith would be I think very much appropriate

if not something that would be a necessary act of obedience, but would you agree with

me that there are obviously legitimately times with certain people and certain

circumstances when you do have to remove yourself from a certain element of society, not that the

Christian goal is to become move into a monastery of evangelicals

and never associate with the lost, but at the same time we have to be careful, especially with young converts, am

I right?

You need to be careful that you don't get

too big...

Now let me ask you about something that may have an element, or does have an element of

truth in this whole mantra of hang out with winners and remove

the losers from your life.

Even when it comes to people that are not involved in overt sin that may tempt you to

join them in their sin, how do you

deal with the fact that although you cannot remove completely, or you should

not completely remove everyone in your life that may be what have...

they may be who have become known as the result of a

classic Saturday Night Live skit, they may be Debbie Downers,

people who just habitually suck the joy out of you by

a never ending series of complaints and never

ending regurgitation of self pity and they are truly depressing to be around.

I'm not saying that if you're a Christian, and especially if this person is lost,

and if they are behaving that way, there's a very good indication they may be.

But even Christians, even those who are born again, we do not have perfect personalities

so you can even have a brother or sister in Christ that to a degree behaves that way.

But is it right to at least in

putting the priorities of your life in proper order, not giving too much

of your time, not surrendering too much of your time to people like that, that may

be addicted to you being their shoulder to cry on to an extreme, where you're

actually wind up not being the husband that you should

be to your spouse, not being the child you should be to your parents, the sibling that you should be to your siblings,

the friend that you should be to your friends, the employee that you should be to your employers, the employer that

you should be to your employees.

You could be robbed of valuable time in other vital spheres of life because of

individuals like this.

So how do you as a Christian respond to that.

Dilemma?

Needy people.

That actually comes up a lot in

Biblical,

and

you can understand

why we'd want to do that.

Love demands.

I

have a

problem

here,

and

maybe

even for a time.

You know,

you've given me.

An idea.

I think I'm going to make a fortune selling T -shirts, custom designed T -shirts that say

back away, I'm a black hole of emotional neediness.

I would be first in line.

I'd buy a box of those.

We have Grady, very faithful, loyal listener, and also a generous supporter of

Iron Trip and Zion Radio in Asheboro, North Carolina.

Greetings, brothers.

One of the fruits of the Spirit is self -control.

In Galatians chapter 5, verse 23, and in Colossians chapter 3, verse 23, we're told to

work as if we're working for our Lord Jesus Christ.

As a professional truck driver, I don't have a lot of problems obeying these while doing my job

because it's my ministry.

But at home, I'm very disorganized and can't seem to be

motivated.

I heard Elizabeth Elliott say one time that disorganization is because we can't make a decision.

Do you think your book would help me and others with getting organized at home because I

want all areas of my life pleasing to God?

And so therefore, I'm going to ask Grady a question.

What are you doing, wasting your time writing a question to this program?

Oh, I'm kidding!

If you could, Brother Reagan?

Yeah, that

would be

applicable.

One of the men in the book, if

the chief end of

man is to glorify

God, think of that as

underneath that, you have your vocation,

and beneath that

is the task.

I want to, I think

in

organizing,

what would the...

Just out of curiosity with your home life, I've always wondered when people write books like the one you have

written, does it ever backfire on you where your spouse might yell at you from across the room,

Mr.

Productivity, you left your socks on the floor!

You know, anything like that ever happen?

Mr.

Organize!

It is a.

Perpetual...

And we

have to

go

to

our

final

break.

If you want to get in line behind the others who are already waiting to have their questions asked and answered, I would

suggest that you submit your question quickly to ChrisArnzen at gmail .com, C -H -R -I -S

A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail .com.

As always, give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence.

Only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal or private matter.

Don't go away, we'll be right back.

Hi, I'm Pete Hegseth, co -host of Fox and Friends Weekend.

Now, I don't have to tell you, but American education is in a free fall, crumbling under the weight of a century of

damage inflicted upon America's academic system.

The answer?

It's called classical Christian education, a form of K -12 ed that's very distinct from

the type of education most Americans have received, myself included.

And that's why I'm so excited to have been invited by my friends at Long Island's Grace Christian

Academy to talk about this wonderful, growing movement and new approach rediscovered to education.

It's at 7 p .m. October 15th at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Melville, New York.

I'll also be signing copies of my New York Times bestselling book, Battle for the American Mind, for the first

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Now, this is a fundraising event designed to raise money to help grow this type of education at a time

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I hope to see you there.

Mark your calendars for October 6th through 8th as we fight, laugh, and feast to the glory of God in

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I'm Dr. Tony Costa, Professor of Apologetics and Islam at Toronto Baptist Seminary.

I'm thrilled to introduce to you a church where I've been invited to speak and have grown to love,

Hope Reformed Baptist Church in Coram, Long Island, New York, pastored by Rich Jansen and Christopher

McDowell.

It's such a joy to witness and experience fellowship with people of God like the dear saints at Hope Reformed Baptist Church

in Coram, who have an intensely passionate desire to continue digging deeper and deeper into

the unfathomable riches of Christ in His Holy Word, and to enthusiastically proclaim

Christ Jesus the King and His doctrines of sovereign grace in Suffolk County, Long Island and

beyond.

I hope you also have the privilege of discovering this precious congregation and receive the blessing

of being showered by their love as I have.

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Tell the folks at Hope Reformed Baptist Church of Coram, Long Island, New York that you heard about them from Tony Costa

on Iron Sharpens Iron.

Welcome back.

Reagan, I would love for you to now make sure that some major elements of your

book that we may have not addressed are spoken by you to the audience.

Most of the questions have been driven by listeners and myself

and this is one of the rare occasions where I haven't even had a chance to see the book prior to

the interview because I don't have it yet.

As I said earlier, this was a last minute kind of a booking of a guest and

Reagan was so gracious to accommodate us with very little notice to be on the

show.

So I want to make sure that you have a number of minutes uninterrupted to give some of the essential

points of the book.

It's been a joy to get to be on the show and speak with you.

You should think about personal

routine.

You were gifted by

people often misapply you know

Philippians 4 directly.

To do that in all

that you can organize of your life that will give you 80 of

the

people of

our word.

That

your

priority

to

many Christians gives you the

theological foundation.

We have RJ in White Plains, New York, who says do you think there can be a danger

especially for people that may be naturally gifted at organization to

become so overly organized that they become robotic and lack

spontaneity and even refuse the company of others because it doesn't fit

in a very neat and tidy way with their schedules and other things that may come up

providentially that you're not prepared for that some people might totally ignore or eliminate

just because they want to stick to their schedule and to their tight organized life.

Our finitude

is

that you do

become

robotic.

One way that we

can pass

a vehicle for honoring God with my life when I view it like that.

This was my plan for

the day.

This is

thinking about my whole life.

Well, I have had a blast interviewing you today and I already know that I

definitely want you to return to the program often as often as you would like and as often

especially as God will permit.

I want to make sure that our listeners have the website for Moody Publishers who gave us

these free copies today that we gave away.

MoodyPublishers .com.

MoodyPublishers .com.

Look up this book.

Investigate it.

Examine what the website has to say about it.

And if you want to purchase it, please purchase it from Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service since they are a sponsor of the

show.

CVBBS .com.

CVBBS .com.

If they don't have it in stock, they will order it for you.

And they do typically have in stock things that we highlight on this show.

I want to make sure also that you have the website of my guest

RedeemingProductivity .com.

RedeemingProductivity .com.

RedeemingProductivity .com.

Thank you so much, Reagan Rose, for being such a superb guest.

I want to thank everybody who listened, especially those who took the time to write in questions.

I hope you all have a safe, joyful, healthy, and Christ -honoring weekend

in Lord's Day.

And I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than

you are a sinner.