Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report
May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 25 segments
Andrew Rappaport and his guest, Brenton Rilingdive, headfirst into the contentious topic of whether Christians should engage in the political arena. They quickly tackle the prevalent myth that…
As far as Christians, you know, there's a lot of folks who are Christians who really don't think we should be investing time in entrepreneurial work because it does...
I had a, a guy I worked with when I worked at Bell Laboratories, and he and I and a couple others, we, we'd go out for sushi once a month.
And typically what we'd do is one, one of us would come up with an idea, and we'd bang it around and we'd be like, "This would be really good." And we, and we, we work out a business plan.
We'd sit there over sushi f- talking back and forth and, and then at some point, one, one of the g- us would just turn and say, "Okay, you really willing to sacrifice the family to go and do this?" And we'd be like, "Yeah, nope." And then we'd drop it.
I actually had the idea of using a s- you know, swappable hard drives so that you could just...
You, you could download everything onto a hard drive, and you wanna go to a friend's house, just pull her- your hard drive out, put it into their device, or even, you know, take it from your hard drive to a flash drive, you know? But the, the reality is, uh, it's a lot of time.
You know? And, and some people think like, well, Christians should be more focused on just church and family, and just get a job that's 9:00 to 5:00, which I don't know if those actually exist anymore.
But, but I've, I have heard people that talk of it like that when it comes to entrepreneurial type stuff with Christians.
So if someone was to make an argument like that to you, uh, I know your, your...
With your background or the idea of taking dominion, right? So, but do you think we have a call to more than just, uh, like, a- as, as...
As far as Christians, you know, there's a lot of folks who are Christians who really don't think we should be investing time in entrepreneurial work because it does...
I had a, a guy I worked with when I worked at Bell Laboratories, and he and I and a couple others, we, we'd go out for sushi once a month.
And typically what we'd do is one, one of us would come up with an idea, and we'd bang it around and we'd be like, "This would be really good." And we, and we, we work out a business plan.
We'd sit there over sushi f- talking back and forth and, and then at some point, one, one of the g- us would just turn and say, "Okay, you really willing to sacrifice the family to go and do this?" And we'd be like, "Yeah, nope." And then we'd drop it.
I actually had the idea of using a s- you know, swappable hard drives so that you could just...
You, you could download everything onto a hard drive, and you wanna go to a friend's house, just pull her- your hard drive out, put it into their device, or even, you know, take it from your hard drive to a flash drive, you know? But the, the reality is, uh, it's a lot of time.
You know? And, and some people think like, well, Christians should be more focused on just church and family, and just get a job that's 9:00 to 5:00, which I don't know if those actually exist anymore.
But, but I've, I have heard people that talk of it like that when it comes to entrepreneurial type stuff with Christians.
So if someone was to make an argument like that to you, uh, I know your, your...
With your background or the idea of taking dominion, right? So, but do you think we have a call to more than just, uh, like, a- as, as...
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