Christian identity

I’ve been thinking. What does it mean to be a Christian on an everyday level? When you’re washing the dishes, when you’re looking after children, when you’re driving to and from work, when you’re hanging the laundry, when you’re trying to save your pennies – how is life different because you’re in relationship with God? Because it has to matter on that level, on the ordinary level, or it can’t matter at all.

For many of us, our identity as Christians lies in our ministry role, or in our theological position. But who is Christ and who are you when that is taken away, or takes a back seat?
These questions have been raised because I’ve found myself in a whole new context – a new province, new church, job hunting, making new friends, setting up a new house. I’ve finished theological studies (for now) and I don’t have a ministry position. It’s easy to pine for those things, for the familiar ways in which my Christian life made sense and had purpose. So it’s easy to think that just getting involved more in church again will make the problem go away. But I think I could be missing out on an opportunity to explore the Christian life on a different plane.

These are my questions:

How is God involved in the daily rhythms of ordinary life?
What’s so great about salvation in this life, in this house, in this family?
How do I experience the life of God in Christ in the mundane?
Should I try to look beyond the mundane or look deeper into the mundane?
What does it really mean to have a relationship with God? What is prayer?
Can I even make sense of the Christian life as an individual?


~lg