Transforming secular space

Many religious people live with a sacred/secular divide. If we understand the nature of the Kingdom of God, we will live above that artificial divide and overcome all modern dualisms.  As Christians we give all of life over to God in worship and we recognize the work of God in formerly nonspiritual things or activities. "There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation," Madeleine L’Engle says according to be book Emerging Churches. "Even times of coffee turned into worship and to a centering on Christ," Dwight Friesen tells when he is describing the way of community life is is experiencing. This sentence brings into mind one of my most quoted and laughed of poems which goes like this:

To be somebody

Is to eat an orange

In worship and wonder

We need a holistic faith that creates a spirituality for all of life. The world need to see a whole-life spirituality that has its roots in trust in Jesus Christ, a spirituality that gives no credence to the idea of a realm without God.

We may define secular space as a place where God has been excluded. But it is a bubble of unreality for God can’t be exclude from anything. Secular is artificial and it should not exist!

The simple words of that little poem encapsulate a very deep truth and a holistic way of life that has been missing in modern Christianity. The entire earth and everything in it belongs to the Lord (Psalm 24:1). God is present in every aspects the world. Kingdom people can see him at work in people, society, creation and every little thing in life.

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  1. Miss Aspenwoods Avatar

    To Eat an Orange

    To be somebody
    Is to eat an orange
    In worship and wonder
    Erling Thu
    To see the poem in its original context, click here

  2. Paul Sunde Avatar
    Paul Sunde

    This is such an important and helpful post:)

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