We can’t plant a missional churches that don’t address Work. Most people spend the lion’s share of their time in their field of work. That field of work is not only a mission field, but it is a city field. It is an urban domain.

Cities are comprised of anywhere from 5-10 city domains: Government, Arts, Education, Social Services, Health Services, Technology, Family, etc. Missional Churches must do the hard work of helping their people see their vocation in urban domains in terms of missional calling, not merely for evangelism but for whole gospel living.

Although I’ve thought, worked, and taught on Work as Mission for a few years, this is only the third message on work in the past 20 months as Austin City Life. We need to continue to resource, inspire, equip, and release people into the Mission of Work. Over at Creation Project I’ve listed some practical ways to do this. Feel free to share yours!

Amiable Religion reporter, Joshunda Sanders, visited Austin City Life on Sunday and gave us a nice review in the Austin Statesman Of Sacred & Secular blog. I think she did a good job describing a Sunday for us. I’ve included an excerpt:

From Dodson’s wife to a couple whose bills had been paid anonymously by the church community, members addressed the congregation during the hour-long service in a spirit of love and gratitude. “It’s great to know that the Gospel is more than words on a page,” David Hampton, a member said. “The Gospel is a living God, not just an old guy on a cloud with a ZZ Top beard.

The rest of the article goes into greater detail. Thank you Lord for a good, gospel-reflecting review!