What Christian would claim that God wants nothing of us while we’re alive except to receive his grace and worship Him? Those things are obviously very important, but God clearly wants work out of us during our time on Earth.
We are to spread the Gospel. We are to worship and fellowship with believers in Christ. We are to be good mothers and fathers in raising our children and good husbands and wives in marriage. We are to minister to those in need and cherish all human life as sacred.
So many of our day-to-day living habits of faith exist in the background of our lives, the mundane wallpaper of obligations and responsibilities to which we ordinarily give little thought. One of the things I want readers to take away from my ebook, “The Endeavor of Life,” is a new appreciation for our daily devotion to life – the devotion to both our own lives and the lives of others. It goes right to heart of reconciling the goodness of God with evil and suffering in the world. Our sacred duties towards God’s precious gift of life provides the foundation from which humankind can know God. It’s why the perils of life are ours to navigate (though, with God’s guidance, of course.)
Appreciating our part in perpetuating the Gospel and the grace of God through Christ is not typically a point of emphasis within Christian teaching. Salvation is not ours to offer, after all, but Christ’s. But I hope people gain a better understanding of how our devotion to life on Earth and for eternity has made the traditions of our faith accessible to people through generations. God uses that devotion and all the small parts each of us plays in the great endeavor of life as a platform to deliver and especially to sustain His teachings for all generations.