Common Grace
Posted by tom | Oct 14, 2005Our weekday breakfast fellowship recently discussed common grace. When going through my archives I found this piece by Ken Myers of Mars Hill Audio on the topic. Would love to have your thoughts/reactions.
"I am convinced that if what Christianity was and what culture was were properly understood, a discussion about the doctrine of common grace would be almost unnecessary. One of the reasons the doctrine of common grace has become a lost teaching, an unfamiliar idea, is that modern Christians, especially evangelical Christians, have made some crucial mistakes in their thinking about Christianity and culture." -- Ken Myers from Christianity, Culture, and Common Grace, online (via PDF file).
Still reading, but this paragraph struck me as being exactly what's going on in my head: "...today it is common to hear Christians reffering to anything worth doing as being 'kingdom work.' Sometimes this may be done out of a sense of guilt, that is, they feel they really ought to be spending more time studying the Scriptures or praying, but after all, their PTA meeting or their letter to the editor about the Route 288 extension or their volunteering at the public library is *kingdom* work."
This resonates a lot with my recent thoughts on time management, planning, and even whether my being here in grad school is selfish, somehow. Nothing real concrete coming out of all that thinking, as I'm still walking through the process.
Posted by Amy, Oct 14 2005, 14:51