CS Lewis has it right again (not that he always does). Screwtape letter XXVIII has the senior devil warning the junior one about the danger of his ‘patient’ [ie, the Christian to whom he has been assigned] dying in the [then] current war: (more…)
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Dangers of Middle Age
October 2, 2010Doing great things nine-to-five
June 19, 2010Once again, Mark Greene – director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity – gets it right. In a recent letter to supporters he recounts how a Christian teenager battled against a problem at his school. “Why am I telling you this story?”, Mr Greene asks rhetorically. (more…)
The Christian’s dual calling
May 2, 2010The former president of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students was preaching, talking about the Christian’s dual calling: to apply Biblical truth to every area of society and to proclaim the Lorship of Christ everywhere. (more…)
Career and gospel
April 3, 2010I have just re-read ‘Good News to the Poor’ and in chapter seven (‘Good News to the Rich’) the author, Tim Chester, says
Some people make life choices by deciding first on the lifestyle to be adopted, then they choose a job to fund that lifestyle, then a home nearby before finally choosing a local church… [an alternative is to] see ourselves first and foremost as gospel ministers and members of gospel communities
Tim Chester then goes on to say how our gifts and passions – in the context of needs - would shape our ministry (eg, sharing the gospel with elderly people, helping the homeless – “It could be any one of a hundred things”). We would then decide where we needed to live and how much we needed to earn to fund this ministry. Only then would we decided what job we were to do and where we were to live.
Is this practical? Is this Biblical? It flies in the face of most of what I have done for most of my life – but that does not mean it is wrong. (more…)
(More) bad theology about serving God
March 12, 2010A feature of having this site hosted by WordPress [and this is not a commercial] is that you get all sorts of info about site visitors – and a recent web surfer found this site after entering “when to quit job to serve god full time” into a search engine.
That search term in itself sums up what this site is about.
[If you were that surfer don't feel too bad about it - it made for another post]
How to serve the Lord
October 13, 2009I receive a newsletter from a mission society on the continent. An article in a recent edition made me write the following to the society:
In the September issue Mr C wrote about the transforming power of good Christian books. He said, “This… led to a longing to serve the Lord”. Dare I say that is theologically inaccurate since Mr C seemed to already be a believer? One of the marks of being a believer is that we long to serve the Lord – isn’t it? (more…)
