Yesterday I sent out our most recent Newsletter for this ministry. (By the way, if you do not currently recieve this newsletter and would like to, please comment on this post or send me and email!) In that newsletter, I laid out a slight, but important, adjustment I am making to the approach of this ministry.

Today I wanted to post part of that newsletter so that you can see what the focus is and how I want to approach writing here as well and studies I offer in the future. Here it goes:

Exploring the intersection of the gospel and our ordinary lives

Discerning Mind critically, but lovingly, looks at our lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ. We want to truly live at the intersection of the gospel and our ordinary lives, rescuing the gospel from a “Sunday-only” mentality. We will study the gospel and our lives in such a way that we see the connections more clearly and live boldly because the gospel is true every moment. How does the gospel impact our marriages, our parenting, our work, our entertainment choices and pursuits, our passions and even our sleep? These are just a few of the areas we will evaluate and think through on this blog. The hope is to learn more what it means to do everything we do to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31) with the gospel affecting every moment of our lives and then to live with all our might for the Lord (Colossians 3:23-24) because we are already accepted in the gospel.

How does that work? That is what we are a going to spend our time on. There is much to think through and being honest about our lives is the first step. How much does the gospel currently impact my everyday, ordinary life? That is a very important question as we start.
Obviously I will not be abandoning my own interest in movies and books. That is part of my own passion and will clearly still be a major portion of how I work all of this out in my own life. The benefit of this clearer vision is that it is more broad and will also therefore include so much more that can be beneficial to people everywhere.

So, what do you think? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below. I am tremendously excited as this helps me to clarify how to write for the blog and how it can help encourage all of us to live for Jesus every moment of every day.

Tags: Christianity, glorify God, Gospel, ordinary life