Missio Dei Communities

You are about to read something that makes me very excited.  It is an example of someone in our community looking at a normal everyday experience through a gospel lens.  

We have asked our Missional Community leaders to fill out an Assessment.  One of the questions is, “How has the gospel been transforming you over the last couple of months?”  Here is Dennis’ response:

A lot in the little reasons of why I do or do not do something. Irreligion says skip out on Jury duty (me).Religion says do it to look good. The gospel says I have been spared the ultimate judgment and through jury duty I get to display God's justice and look at people with the knowledge of God's great mercy.

Here are some reasons I love it:

1.  Dennis used a specific concrete example.  He didn’t go with, “The gospel has been making me more patient.”  He gave a real specific example from earlier that week.
2.  He ran it through the Irreligion/Religion/Gospel grid.  It made me think of the last section of Tim Keller’s article, The Centrality of the Gospel, where he seems to run every aspect of life through the grid.
3.  I know from talking to Dennis and Summer that this isn’t an isolated incident.  They really are a young family seeking to live all of their life through a gospel lens.

What’s going on in your life today?  How can you view it with gospel intentionality?