Mission and work
Posted by Paul | Filed under work
Another post rediscovered in the process of moving to WordPress. This one is a great quote from Tim Keller, taken from The Missional Church. I found the paper as a whole really helpful, but particularly in explaining why thinking about all of life from a Christian perspective has (or has to) moved up the agenda:
In ‘Christendom’ you can afford to train people just in prayer, Bible study, evangelism — private world skills — because they are not facing radically non-Christian values in their public life — where they work, in their neighborhood, etc.
In a ‘missional’ church, the laity needs theological education to ‘think Christianly’ about everything and work with Christian distinctiveness. They need to know: a) what cultural practices are common grace and to be embraced, b) what practices are antithetical to the gospel and must be rejected, c) what practices can be adapted/revised.
In a ‘missional’ situation, lay people renewing and transforming the culture through distinctively Christian vocations must be lifted up as real ‘kingdom work’ and ministry along with the traditional ministry of the Word.
Tags: mission, Tim Keller, work
One Response to “Mission and work”
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Jonny Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Great quote, as is the rest of the paper. I loved the re-telling stories bit… Another reason why Gran Torismo is such a great film.
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