“How often have you heard of someone, maybe thought it yourself, that ‘Now that I’m a Christian I need to stop…’ being a musician or an artist or a farmer or a businessman or a politician or a solder or a plumber or a teacher or what have you? Suddenly, we feel the need to drop everything and become a missionary to the Third World! I need to go into ‘full time’ ministry! Because the ‘ordinary’ stuff seems so unimportant in light of the ‘extraordinary’ good news of salvation. This way of thinking sees the gospel and grace of Christ as opposing the ‘ordinary’ things of the world. Here’s some liberating news. God’s wants musicians and artists and business people and politicians and soldiers and plumbers and teachers to continue doing those things. Grace doesn’t lift us out of the ordinary world; it empowers us to renew the ordinary world for God’s glory.”
Brian Mattson