Malaria Consortium

I mean, one, one piece would be kind of establishing the minimum impact you could have, and like we could see this through the impact of donating 10% of your salary to charity.

And if you give that to a charity like, again, it's Malaria Foundation, with an average college graduate salary in the US, which I think is around $80,000 a year over the lifetime, then that would be enough to roughly save two lives every year or to Malaria Consortium or something like that.

I'm sure you've already talked about that on the show in the past.

So then you could say, "Well, okay, so now I'm willing to change my career as well as give 10%." If you could earn 10% more money and donate that, which would be earning to give, then you could double your impact again, so then that would be four lives per year.

value – the interesting part for this conversation is like the value of – making connections can have an infinite payoff.

Say you give some money to the Malaria Consortium or one of these charities, and it actually causes a life to be saved.

And then imagine like a few years later, you met the person whose life you saved.

That could be like a really cool thing that would add value to your relationship.

So it really depends on like what kind of infinite suffering even in hell, whether I would take that

gamble.

So when you think about the trade-offs between the good that Christians can do, between promoting evangelism and knowledge of saving faith in Jesus and relationship with him versus doing acts of temporal mercy and compassion, like saving lives from malaria through malaria consortium, or even caring for animals, right? How do you think about that trade-off with these infinities, sort of the elephant in the room?

Yeah, and I guess I have the opinion that it's clear the church as a whole ought to do both, spread the gospel and try to care for the material needs of people.