" Evangelism is not an activity to be squeezed into our busy schedules. It becomes an intention that we carry with us throughout our day. The same is true of church, If church and mission are redefined in relational terms , then work, leisure , and family can be viewed as gospel activities. Ordinary life becomes pastoral and missional if we have gospel intentionality."
What do you think, Agree? Disagree?
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Although I agree with the "intention" of the statement, and especially with respect to the relational context of church and mission, I have a hard time with the last statement, "Ordinary life becomes pastoral and missional if we have gospel intentionality."
It seems this statement encourages the misunderstanding that somehow there is "ordinary life" for the believer with an implied option to compartmentalize our lives into "ordinary" and "spiritual" pursuits.
"Ordinary life" doesn't "become pastoral and missional" if we have "gospel intentionality". Those who have been born again have a new life, and it is neither ordinary nor is it optional. Either we are dead in trespasses and sin or we are alive in Christ. If alive in Christ, then we are not our own, we have been bought with a price. It is Scripture that informs our understanding, and the Holy Spirit comforms our character from within to the image of Christ, whose food was to do the will of the Father.
The difference may seem subtle, but there lies a wide gulf between the two perspectives... with the one there is sin, the flesh and the devil... with the other, in the Kingdom of God, there is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
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