In less than a decade, I have already left four different jobs.

I’m not an expert, nor am I especially proficient at leaving jobs; I’ve simply had to consider if or how I should leave a role more than the average person! As I went through my first few job transitions, I noticed that other Christians in the midst of career angst or at a career crossroads also found themselves ill-equipped when it came to wisely discerning a job transition.

On any given Sunday in America, “how we reckon with wealth and ambition” varies as much as our contexts do: from city to country, megachurches to small parishes, and so on. Questions of wealth and ambition are likewise varied across time and culture, as the example of church history shows. In fact, entire denominations have formed over the finer nuances of these very questions…A number of different “absolutes” are prescribed, and so Christians are left at a difficult fork in the road: whose school of thought is right?