We’ve been deceived to separate our lives into perceived sacred and secular realms. This goes back to the Greek rational roots of our western civilization. In the Greek mind, Spirit and flesh are diametrically opposed forces within us.  In that paradigm the good things come from the spiritual side and bad comes from the flesh. Some would say we are the soul that lives with the other two parts in a constant battle for supremacy. All the while hanging on for dear life as the war rages inside.

Based on His teaching, the way Jesus saw things was that we are first and foremost spiritual beings and that everything we do is from a spiritual source. All of life should flow from spirit, pouring our very lives out for others as He so perfectly demonstrated.

The ecclesiastical view of ministry as being totally contained within the institution of church is absolutely foreign to the life of the early church. “Ministry” was part and parcel of the daily practice of body life.  Cooking meals, tending the crops, building a house, making music, everyday actions of life all of them.

Bottom line is that there is no such division between sacred and secular in the way of Jesus. Life is to be lived authenticity from our inner spirit in every circumstance and vocation.   No pretense, no fear of being found out as a charlatan or phony religious faker.   Our real life is to be wrapped up in the changed person who has determined to follow Jesus in every way and everyday.

The truth of the sacred/secular delusion has been revealed.

Like worship, isn’t everything ministry?