You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Gigi, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Oh for the else, Hi can two seconds? Hi?
Hello there. I am a primary care physician. Young lady came to
me seeking abortion. I, of course don't do abortion by trade, and
I refer to the patient and the physical after referring memes that my staff has
to go on the computer and fill out the referral forms and click the button
and send it. My staff had significant problems doing that, and she approached
me, and I composed and will you finally get it? But I want
to know how you would have approached it? Well, are you a Christian
only facility? No, here's the rough part when it comes to it's abhorrent.
It is a vulgar display in many ways, and to get into the
detail of what's taking place would make most people lose their breakfast. However,
I assure you that the everybody has made it a political issue, which is
to me almost equally as vulgar, because what gets lost on both sides is
the fact that there is no one unless there's some bizarre twisted in an individual,
there is no one on either side that wants to see a baby die.
No one. The confusion comes because there are What really sets the two
sides apart is the definition of when it's a baby. So the but no
one's setting out to kill babies, and I that's an ugly thought to think
that that's what people are really doing. They're not. It's just the definition
of when it's a baby. So science says something different than theology. Yet
as a scientist, you're there representing the laws of the land and medicine to
take care of your patients. The law of the land currently says that under
certain circumstances, during certain times of the pregnancy, that to abort that pregnancy
is okay. If you're in a public facility, your job is to give
them the information they need to make the best decisions they can. But the
decision is not on you. It's on the individual. Just like in anything,
your job is to give them the best information. But the patient can
say no, I don't want to take that pill, or no, I
don't want to follow up. They can even tell you that they don't want
you to resuscitate them right correct, And you could say that that's against God's
will because now you're allowing them to make a decision to not live correct.
So there's a lot of weight on you as a physician and in the nursing
community as well, that those that are in the medical profession to give the
best information, and that's what you're called to do. It's not a point
of preaching. Now, if you feel that there's an opportunity and you want
to make sure that they have the best information on both sides, that's fine.
But as far as allowing somebody in the United States to make that decision,
there are laws that protect them to be able to do so. And
if you're going to be a position in a public in the public arena,
they are going to be allowed to do that. So this is a private
medical office, but not exclusively a Christian office, and we treat people of
faith or not. And my staff is a believer, and so what would
you specifically say to the believer, Well, if they don't, if they
don't feel comfortable with doing that, there might be a way of around that
for you to allow someone else to or things of that nature. However,
there's a point where if you're going to be in that industry and it is
in the United States and it is legal, then there's going to be issues,
and she can even or he can even make a claim and say,
hey, as a person of faith, this upsets me and I don't want
to be a part of it. And that's fair to a certain degree,
but there's a point where if the laws are with the laws are, and
if you don't want to participate in that, then you know, if you
had Jehovah's witness in there, didn't believe in blood transfusions, now that becomes
an issue, and that starts to infringe on the individual's right who has a
legal right to get a blood transfusion. They're going, well, I don't
want to fill out the paperwork or I don't want to do this, and
that becomes a little sticky. So if there are ways around it that could
be done tactfully and does not impede on the legal rights and the individual rights
of the person wanting whatever treatment that is legal, then you can adapt to
those. But you can't just halt the system based on your faith, because
in that process you're taking away the rights of an individual that is legal in
the United States, and that becomes a problem as well to those that want
to choose that. So my comment to myself was that I'm also a believer,
but that's one I would not have performed the abortion myself. Good,
but it's not in my scope of service either. I'm not an over but
even if I was, when I would be an objan that would not perform
abortions. But if I were an obi Juan who is whose scopbook service includes
abortion, I would refer the patient to a colleague of mind. And because
people do have the right to make decisions, whether right or wrong in our
eyes, in my eyes, but if I am unable to comply with your
wishes, then it is my job to point them to someone else who can
work with them. And that was my comfo to my staff. Do you
have any need to add to that. No, I think that's a very
honest way of approaching it, because if you start becoming the the Christian police,
it becomes problematic. Now let's say you're a checker at a grocery store
and now you're looking at twinkies and ho hos, and the person in front
of you is overweight, and you start going, well, I'm not going
to sell this to you because you're obviously abusing it, or any of those
that you start policing everybody's option, and if the freedoms exist in the United
States, you have to allow that. Now you don't have to do it
yourself in that sense, but your practice has to have somebody that is able
to write that referral or to do that. Otherwise it stops being a practice
and a medical practice and starts being a religious practice, which becomes a problem.
And I think that your consult was very fair and honest and looking at
making sure everybody's taken care of, and I think that was the right way
to go about it. Thank you, You're welcome, and thank you for
what you do. It's a very important thing that you do. And I
know that your faith ties into it and you're praying for people and you're being
there, and that makes you even more important out there as a physician.
To have the balance between your scientific mind and your spiritual sense as well,
I think is a very important part of the medical industry. This is an
incredibly difficult subject, but I really want people to hear and to be left
with the thought that nobody wants to kill babies. Nobody does. I know
that's the easier way to think about it, and to look at it's not
about that. It's the definition of when they see a baby, and it
may be different than yours, and that's part of the fight. Part of
the fight is to get science to see that. And as they see that,
then that will change. But as if the majority of doctors see that
as tissue and not yet a baby, then it won't matter what you do
and or say. That's where it will change. But nobody's going around smiling
at taking the life of a child. Nobody wants that, no one,
no matter how hard they are on either side. It's a matter of the
definition of when it's a child. There are a lot of decisions that are
tough to make as a believer in this world. And you're to be in
the world but not of the world, and that means that you are to
separate yourself, but you still have to interact with it in a way that
is productive and means something. Maybe you've heard the term so spiritually minded,
you know, earthly good. And if you get to a place where everything
is so spiritual that you shut down existing and connecting as a human being,
then it's gone. It's done. Then you might as well just be in
heaven, because what happens here is. God puts you here for a reason.
It's to exist and interact with those other humans. To be an example
in life as to how one should live. Doesn't mean you're always going to
it right, doesn't mean you're not going to make mistakes. But this constant
concept that as a Christian you're just supposed to rebel against everything rather than leading
by an example, is not the focus of your purpose here. And that
may sound strange, but I will tell you that when it comes to things
as weighty as abortion and that topic, and I know that regardless of which
side you land on, I know I can hear you tighten up when I
even use the word, and automatically your brain switches over to that political view
that you have and not about what's really taking place. God sees that child
at the moment of conception, but science doesn't yet. And I realize that
those things can be frustrating. But I also realize that the same people that
would put themselves across the pathway of an abortion clinic in the name of God
won't do the same thing across the threshold of a false church or a pastor
who is lying or fleecing his flock. And that to me is strange as
well, and that shows me that there is a political bent here that is
beyond the spiritual and to find that balance and that understanding as to why you
believe what you believe and what you're willing to do for your faith. When
God himself says, fear not those that can kill the flesh, but he
who can kill the spirit. Mark. Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Good morning. Hi, we only have a couple of minutes here. I
know this is off the wall question, but you know, I have a
environment problem with spurs and rabbits and things, and I wonder if the Bible
says anything about poisoning put in poison not for animals. I know the Bible
says to take care of the animals, but is it bad to get rid
of them with poisons and going them. You have every right to defend your
property and your home from disease and from problems. But what I want to
say on top of that is when you poison an animal, and squirrels aren't
particularly nasty with with disease the way other rodents like a rat, for instance,
they're destructive and they really the first thing you want to do is you
want to try sanitation and property maintenance. You want to go through and make
sure you don't have any high protein things laying around, dog food, laying
around cat food, laying around things like that that are going to attract them.
There's ways we feed birds and we got birds. Yes, bird seed
is another one that will will attract them. And this these all become problems
that lure them in. When you poison an animal like that, because they
are, you know, in involved with other predators. You could end up
killing multiple animals by poisoning a squirrel, right, and that becomes a problem
to just the the the ecological line of that animal. So I prefer that
you look for as many methods as you can to sanitize your a direct area
first, or methods that discourage them from being around. But if there,
if you have to go to other methods, then hire somebody who's a professional
who looks to make the least amount of damage to that animal and others around,
because otherwise you just for to ex expedite the process, you start really
causing havoc in your environs and that's not really fair. So you're called to
be a good steward of all things in scripture, meaning animals and the planet
and everything around you, not in the political hug atry sense, but in
the very real this is the resources that you have at hand sense, and
animals fall into that. And just be careful when you're doing that. Don't
do it to get it done quickly. There's ways to even catch them and
get rid of them and things like that. But just first and foremost,
make sure that you're not causing more damage than you're doing good. Justin Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Jesus, I had a question about
right after the ability to become saved and accept Jesus as their personal favor,
like doing that immediately after resurrection and stuff. Right, Okay, what are
you getting at there? Justin Okay, I'm just asking, like in South
America and in America is like, how did those people go into hell because
they didn't have a chance to Oh, you mean, if they didn't if
they didn't hear the name of Jesus or the consonants and the vowels that make
Jesus. Yeah, Okay, that's an excellent question. Romans Won. Romans
Chapter one, starting in verse eighteen, is a really good place to go
when it comes to that question because it explains the difference between special revelation,
which is scripture or somebody coming and knocking on their door or hut or whatever
it may be and saying, hi, I'm a missionary and you need to
know Jesus. Well, that's special. That's a very specific revelation, but
there's also general revelation. As God says in Romans chapter one, verse eighteen,
it says, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness, because that which
is known about God is evident within them. For God made it evident to
them. For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, his
eternal power, and his divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through
what has been made, so that they are without excuse. So really,
what it's saying there is since the beginning of time that God's attributes, the
invisible things of God can be known by creation, So really there is no
excuse. It's not about whether somebody comes to your door and tells you about
Jesus. It's knowing God to the best of your ability, and the circumstances
you are. In the same way, if somebody had a mental deficiency or
a child and Heaven forbid, but their life is taken, then they are
accountable for what they can know or what they did know. It's not about
ignorance. That's not what Heaven's about. That's not what salvation's about. It's
not about ignorance. It's about acceptance or rejection of the truth. So in
Romans, it's talking about that that truth can be known by looking at God's
creation or what some people call nature, looking at those things and seeing,
and that it's imprinted on your heart to know and to seek God. And
that's enough in those circumstances. Sarah, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Emilye. Thanks for taking my call. This is the first time I listened
to your show, and I like the topics and I like the advice and
support that you've given this morning. Well, welcome a Christian and I believe
in God and I have very strong hate this morning, though I have a
question. Is that is something that I'm struggling with at work. I thought
I would be bold and call it in. Okay, So what's going on?
So in my I left the job that I was in for fourteen years
because it was just like overwhelming with past and completing task right with the managerial
role. So now I found myself in that similar role. I was promoted
and it was just like my struggles are I have deadlines to complete things.
In front of most parts, I can complete them, but it's like I
usually have like twenty things I have to do a one time, and it's
very hard to complete task timely. And I know if I just focus on
one thing and get one thing done at a time, then that's how I
get through it. But it just seems like I'm always working struggling to get
current. Does that make sense? Well, sure, don't you say that
that at work you have, uh there's a multitude of tasks that all need
to be done at the same time. Now does that mean that they all
need to be completed at the same time or you say in one day you
have a bunch of tasks and they all need to be done in one day.
There's a bunch of tasks to be completed, requests from people, managers,
internal, external, So it's just you know, the time anthement.
I think that's my biggest struggle where do you think the time is going?
If if time seems to be going out the window, where do you think
it goes? No, I'm not sure how to measure that, because it's
like when I'm at work and stuff are working, I'm not you know,
just visiting or you know, doing random stuff. I'm actually working. But
I think in a way I'm too trying to measure. Okay, do I
need help with my desk? You know, if it's too much? Well
that's a that's a legitimate question, which is why I ask about where you
think your time is going. If there's there is such thing as too much
work. I know that there are bosses that would say differently, or companies
that would go, no, you can you can always do more work.
And I'm not a huge fan of that. There's a time and a place
on as to where you would break, where you just have only enough to
give. There were times where I walked away and rested. There are times
where I I would leave a city and people would say, well, aren't
you going to do X, Y and Z, And I'd say no,
I'm I'm done here and I'm moving on to somewhere else. Otherwise, there's
always something around the corner. If you think it's a legitimate amount of work
and you should be able to do it, then you need to find a
triage system of sorts to tackle certain things. Would I would gather that out
of every task or group of tasks that you have, there is one task
that seems to be more daunting than the rest, or maybe you know less
about it. And usually when you're when you don't feel confident or strong about
a particular task is when it slows you down because you don't want to do
it wrong, you don't want to do it incorrectly, and so you're you
kind of put it off or go at it very slowly. So you could
see if there's any group of tasks there's one in particular that seems to weigh
you down or that you are intimidated by, and put that at the top
of the list to finish, take care of that, ask questions, do
what you need to do, but always creating a triage as the type of
work, what what's going to be simple to do, what's going to take
time, or what you need to learn to do before you can complete it.
Never never be afraid of asking questions. If you're at a place where
they're they don't like you asking questions. Well, that's not a great place.
What I pretty confidence and I asked questions. I need to understand what
I'm doing if I do it. So it's not I don't think it's got
to struggle with that. It's just, you know, prioritizing, Like you
had said, the biggest thing is it's usually a huge tast that's involved,
so to work on that. But I just it's just I noticed this in
my other position that it was just like a gosh, I got all those
work clothes and then when they asked for help, there wasn't a help of
allable. And I said, you know what, I can't do this anymore.
You know, I can't work weekends. My kids, you know,
they evening until I left the job that was on May's very good money and
oh making, it's sure hearing and it's very scary. Well, the workplace
is changing and they're expecting more of people, and they're not really necessarily caring
about the family unit the same way. They figure they will always find somebody
who will give up whatever to do the task. And it's unfortunate. I
will tell you this that if it's if there's not one particular task that is
daunting. There's not one particular task that you feel you don't understand and it's
weighing you down. Then you start at the simplest first and you cross things
off your list. There's nothing more refreshing than feeling like you've gotten you had
success on some things, and you reverse the process, get the small ones
done quickly, and then you have more time on the large ones. It's
it's common sense in so many ways. If there's a blockage, it's you.
There is a purposely like what am I doing? Am I personally creating
this? You know, at the same thing with the previous job of my
purposely from now creating this because I don't know if if I can't focus and
I'm creating twenty five tasks during Do people ever refer to you as a perfectionist,
those that are close to you, Yes, okay, so your particular
in the way you like things done. Yeah, it's so much finance and
accounting, so I guess you know, ways hard to have to be,
you know, so the consequences are large. You're dealing with numbers and things
that actually tied to real money. Yeah, okay, so that that can
be intimidating onto itself, regardless of the size of the task at hand.
And of course you need to be thorough. But sometimes there is paralysis by
perfection. You the concern to get everything done in such a way that you
get nothing done, so afraid of doing things wrong that you don't want to
do anything. I think these are all places where you can you can kind
of poke around and check yourself and see if they're what's holding you up.
I would also recommend you not that you are going to find fun in doing
this auditing for somebody who deals with numbers. But audit your time. Write
a list down, keep it next to you, and audit your time,
your whole day, what time, and be very honest and no one has
to see it but you, And be very honest and see where your time
goes. If people are coming in and talking to you too long at the
office, or people are asking you advice for their stuff, or you're not
getting enough time to do your own work, if anyone else has you assisting
them in their own position or their own stuff. All of these things,
as little as they may be throughout the day, can actually take big chunks
out of what you're trying to process. So if you keep a kind of
timeline on one half what you need to get done, on the other half,
what you're getting done and what's going on throughout the day, I think
you'll be surprised as to where your time goes. And once you see that,
once you see where the time is actually going, you can troubleshoot and
see how you can use your time better. That's very kind. I'm going
to try that deftly. Yeah, so try that first, and you're at
least going to see where there might be Oh my goodness. You know,
five different people came in today and had me ask them for help on their
own projects. Next time, I need to say no until I get to
this point in my list or whatever it might be. And I think you'd
be surprised. It's always the little things. People. People don't lose money
throughout the day because they buy yachts on accident. Oh, I was going
to the grocery store and I bought a yacht, and now my bank account's
broke, you know, completely emptied. Weapons is you go to the grocery
store and you buy the necessities, and then you wait in line and you
go I might want to pack a gum. Yeah, I'll get a peck
of gum. And then you go, oh, gosh, that candy bar
looks good and it was a rough day and I probably deserve it. And
then you get that, and then you're leaving and you're going, oh,
well, you know what, I'll buy a newspaper. Yeah, I haven't
sat down and watched read a newspaper in a long time. And but you
start going through all these things in nickel and dime yourself to death, and
it's no different with the commodity of time. You're constantly nickel and diming yourself
thinking oh, well, yes, I don't want to say no to them,
or I don't want to say no to that. But your first priority
is going to be the task, the list, and that task that's been
imparted to you first. So audit yourself, write it down, do it
for at least one day, but maybe two would be better, and see
if there's any patterns. But you know, you're saying that it makes sense
because there are a lot of people that go to need for knowledge, like
out of you approach joking, and I think because something the people that I've
worked with, like I A would just say okay, what is the problem
I really have to do and I can fix things. I'm really get a
fixing thing, and I think because people know that, they'll say, okay,
this is a problem, so that comes to me for advice to fix
things, and I know my time gets taken for okay, go do this
or I would do that sort of thing, and I just need to pull
back. But I'm definitely audit myself and write it down and just kind of
learning to say, probably know more and pull back and then focus on my
job at HARE. And you end up doing everybody else's work. When you're
good at everything like that, or you're you feel comfortable in a lot of
different fields or very good at your own, people will seek you out.
And that's a wonderful thing. It's both flattering and it's part of the system
and it keeps the system running. But you can't do it at the expense
of what you have to do. So once you find out where it's going,
if you find that that's a pattern and a lot of people come and
ask you questions, great, then you can set up something and say,
hey, listen, the last hour of every workday is I'm going to take
questions. I'm finding I'm not getting my work done. So if you would
like to come back at this time, I'd love to go over that with
you, because I should be caught up by them. Whatever it is.
You can even schedule that and file that in, but you have to see
it as an actual time drain. And now that's one of your tasks,
is helping others in that way. If it's just throughout the day, you'll
never get anything done. There has to be a point where you say,
I'm sorry, I've I have a bunch of products I have to do,
are projects I have to do, and I'd love to help out. Let's
do it at and you schedule them in. Make it a part of that
system. Audit yourself, write it down on paper, see where your time
is going. And I know by listening to how you think and the way
you ask the question, you will correct the problem just by seeing it on
pape. Every generation looks at their life and says it's getting more complicated,
and every generation would be correct to a certain degree. There are new things
coming your way every moment of every day, and you're bombarded with a stimulation
more than any other generation. With mobile accessibility, to the entire world,
mobile accessibility to your job. There was a time where you came home from
work and you spend time with your family. And nowadays you come home from
work, but you're still tethered to a mobile device, whether it be your
phone, whether it be your tablet or even a laptop. You're always around
a portal to your boss, to friends, to family, whoever might need
you. Right that moment. Used to make a phone call and then if
you couldn't get the person, it have to wait. But the world is
in a speed, a little speed location right now. That is all about
getting it done and getting it done now, regardless the feelings may be,
well, family first and you got to take care of this, and you
got to take care of that. But really it's not how it's structured anymore.
It's structured. If something needs to be done with work, it needs
to be done now. Competition is different. Life moves at a different speed,
and in that process it can be very overwhelming and taxing on certain types
of brains. There's just people that move at certain speeds. This is how
they do things, This is how they do them right, And in that
process you can feel like you're being swallowed. But I assure you there is
a way to it. Least calculate what your skills are and what you can
and should be doing at any given time and apply them. And then after
that point you can tip your hat and say this is what I have,
this is my ability, and if they don't like it, you can move
on. But if you're like any other race, if you feel you can't
run at the speeds that are needed, then downsize find a speed that you
can, because you will always be best running at a speed that suits you.
But that must be balanced with growth as well, and looking inwardly and
saying, okay, am I learning a skill or is this pushing me into
another direction to get better at something else or to expand myself? And if
that is the yes answer, then you need to stick with it. But
if not, you move on and you find your proper speed Until next week,
remember these words. I Am with you always. Kf I A M
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