missional living // part the second

The gospel should affect us. Every part of us. As soon as I disallow this, I quickly forget my sin and my saviour’s sacrifice.

I wrote a post the other day about segregating Christ to a corner of my life. For a year and a half before I joined the staff at Cornerstone Church in Auburn, there were large portions of time where I segregated Christ to a box (there were plenty of other times, and I’m not saying I don’t now, I’ve just been pondering this specific period because of the obviousness of it for me). I would like to say it was different. But it was my immediate reaction to the situation we found ourselves in. No excuses, that was disobedience. Plain and simple. I was not allowing Christ to affect every aspect of my life.

As my mind has been spinning on this issue the last couple of days, I’ve added a couple more thoughts to what I posted before about why we do or don’t live missionally, and now do so in light of what I’ll call my own example of disobedience of boxing Jesus in as aforementioned.

1) I/we do so because we lose sight of how big/massive/amazing/sovereign our God is. I talk about this a good bit when discussing why people don’t worship fully and engage in worship. But now, though before I realized this, I see pieces are starting to come together more clearly, those two ideas are not separate. Me living missionally is me worshipping fully. When I lose sight of greatness, my eyes return to my own pursuits of glory and I place Jesus back in his box. When I’m fully surrendering myself to who he is and what he has done and doing my best to wrap my brain around it, there is nothing I want more than to place Jesus at the center and let him bleed over into every part of my life. The gospel should affect us.

2) I’ve been pointed often lately to the passage where Jesus says be the salt and light of the earth. I think this means every area of the earth. Art, education, politics, entertainment, etc, etc. When we take this seriously, how can we put Jesus in his box? Again, he must be at the center bleeding over into all things, every part of my life. The gospel should affect us.

Anyway…still wrestling with this…